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In an Explosive Claim, a Top Art Dealer Says a Hermitage Museum Fabergé Show Is Full of 'Tawdry Fakes' From a Single Russian Oligarch's Collection


The alleged Fabergé Wedding Anniversary Egg at the center of the controversy. Courtesy Fabergé Museum, Baden-Baden.
A leading London-based art dealer has accused the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg of mounting a Fabergé exhibition featuring more than 20 “tawdry fakes” from the collection of Alexander Ivanov, a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
The explosive claim was made in an open letter to Hermitage boss Mikhail Piotrovsky by Andre Ruzhnikov, who has been buying and selling Fabergé for 40 years. In it, he accuses Piotrovsky of “insulting the good name of Fabergé, betraying your visitors’ trust, operating under false pretences, and destroying the authority of the museum you have been appointed to lead.” ....

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