Connaissances
Stalin’s Sales. The masterpieces that left the Hermitage and more
Why would the proletariat need high art? The country needs technology! “The paintings in the Hermitage will not be any worse”, the leaders thought when they invited millionaire buyers from abroad. The madness of the dark time: when people disappeared without a trace, who would regret the paintings? Botticelli, Rembrandt, van Eyck, Raphael, Titian, Rubens — the young Soviet government exchanged…
