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How da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' ended up in the USSR

The legendary ‘La Gioconda’ by Leonardo da Vinci has left France only twice in history. And the last country of her foreign voyage was the Soviet. ....

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8 major cultural trophies the USSR took home after WWII


8 major cultural trophies the USSR took home after WWII
Public domain; Raphael/Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister; Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
The triumphant return of Soviet troops in 1945 was accompanied by large amounts of captured   paintings, sculptures, books and gold - items of the world’s cultural heritage that had survived the flames of war. Later, many of these unique works of art were returned to Germany, but some stayed in the Soviet Union.
1. The collection of the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden
Raphael.Sistine Madonna
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Gallery in Dresden)
In February 1945, Allied forces - British and American - launched a massive aerial bombardment of Dresden, one of the most beautiful German cities, and it seemed the treasures of the famous picture gallery had perished in the terrible fire - the collection of the Electors of Saxony included paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giorgi ....

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The merchant from Moscow who fell for the Parisian avant-garde


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A noticeable friction arose towards the end of the 19th century between Russia’s old-world nobility and its merchant millionaires. The nobility were condescending to the brash new capitalist businessmen for their ignorance of etiquette, but envied their opulent lifestyles, aware they were being usurped. This process accelerated with the generation that came of age in the 1890s. Suddenly there were dozens of young men born into great wealth who were also educated and deeply cultured, having often been the first members in their families to attend elite schools and universities. Such were Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who in the years leading up to the First World War amassed private collections of modern French art of such quality that they were without counterpart anywhere in the world, even in Paris. Although Shchukin’s collecting stopped abruptly in 1914, Morozov continued for three more years, having emulated his late brother Mi ....

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