Title: Treasures into tractors : the selling of Russia's cultural heritage, 1918-1938 /
Authors: Odom, Anne, 1935-; Salmond, Wendy R.
Publisher: Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens ; distributed by University of Washington Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Art and state Soviet Union.; Art Soviet Union Marketing.; Export marketing Soviet Union.; Cultural property Soviet Union.; Art Collectors and collecting History
Contents: Foreword / Robert C. Williams -- Preface / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond -- From preservation to the export of Russia's cultural patrimony / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond -- The fate of Russia's estate houses and their contents, 1917-1930 / Priscilla Roosevelt -- With patriarch Tikhon's blessing : protecting and restoring works of early painting / Irina Kyzlasova -- A Soviet museum experiment / Natalia Semenova -- Operation Duveen / Elena A. Osokina -- The Hermitage, Gosmuzeifond and Antikvariat / Elena Solomakha -- Sales of works from the Leningrad Palace Museums, 1926-1934 / Rifat Gafifullin -- On the third front : the Soviet museum and its public during the cultural revolution / Konstantin Akinsha and Adam Jolles -- Soviet art sales to Europe, 1919-1936 / Waltraud Bayer -- Gone with the wind : the selling of furniture by David Roentgen and other decorative arts / Wolfram Koeppe -- Russian icons and American money, 1928-1938 / Wendy R. Salmond -- American collectors of Russian decorative art / Anne Odom -- Behind the stacks : American acquisitions of imperial libraries / Kristen Regina -- Books for tractors? : Interwar dispersal and sales of Russian Imperial Palace books / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted -- The Tsar's library : books from Russian imperial palaces at the Library of Congress / Harold M. Leich -- Book dealers, collectors and librarians : major acquisitions of Russian imperial books at Harvard, 1920s-1950s / Irina Tarsis -- Romanov and elite provenance materials in the New York Public Library / Robert H. Davis Jr. and Edward Kasinec.