The Hermitage : the biography of a great museum / Geraldine Norman.

Main entry:

Norman, Geraldine.

Title & Author:

The Hermitage : the biography of a great museum / Geraldine Norman.

Publication:

London : J. Cape, 1997.

Description:

xiv, 386 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-367) and index.
A Note on Transliteration of Russian Names and Reference Sources -- 1. Catherine's Hermitage and Peter's City -- 2. Catherine's Collections -- 3. Paul and Alexander -- 4. Nicholas I and the New Hermitage -- 5. Twilight of the Romanovs -- 6. St. Petersburg Collectors and Connoisseurs -- 7. Shchukins and the Morozovs -- 8. Revolution -- 9. New State Hermitage -- 10. Art Sales -- 11. Archaeology -- 12. 'Enemies of the People' -- 13. Siege of Leningrad -- 14. Trophy Art -- 15. Post-War Years -- 16. Piotrovsky and Son -- App. Hermitage Staff Prosecuted by the Soviet Security Services.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0224043129
9780224043120

Subject:

Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) History.
Ėrmitazh History.
Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
Musée de l'Ermitage (Saint-Pétersbourg)
Hermitage (Sint-Petersburg)

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193010
Call No.: ID N3350.N67; ID:97-B4073
Status: Available

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