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SALES OF WORKS OF ART FROM THE LENINGRAD PALACE-MUSEUMS, 1926-1934

SALES OF WORKS OF ART FROM THE LENINGRAD PALACE-MUSEUMS, 1926-1934 RIFAT GAFIFULLIN (St. Petersburg, Russia) SALES O F WORKS OF ART FROM THE LENINGRAD PALACE-MUSEUMS, 1926-1934 In the three years following the 1917 Revolution Russia witnessed a genu- ine museum boom. Hundreds o f palaces, mansions and estates were national- ized and turned into museums. Art historians and scholars devised the most incredible plans for transforming and utilizing these unique cultural monu- ments. Almost all o f the palaces that formerly belonged to the Romanovs in Petrograd and its environs were transformed into museums o f history and everyday life. (See Appendix A.) Georgii Lukomskii, the first director o f the palace-museums at Detskoe Selo (formerly Tsarskoe Selo), summed up the first years o f their existence as follows: The system o f transforming the palaces into museums adopted by the Commission [on Museum Affairs] (in other museums it was almost the same, except for the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg) was quite distinct from that used by curators in the former royal residences o f Western Europe. As a matter o f fact, the Residenzschlossen in both Munich and Dresden and in Vienna (the Hotburg and Sh6nnbrun) were adapted in quite a different way. Even the period http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

SALES OF WORKS OF ART FROM THE LENINGRAD PALACE-MUSEUMS, 1926-1934

GAFIFULLIN, RIFAT
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 43 (4): 161 – Jan 1, 2009
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RIFAT GAFIFULLIN (St. Petersburg, Russia) SALES O F WORKS OF ART FROM THE LENINGRAD PALACE-MUSEUMS, 1926-1934 In the three years following the 1917 Revolution Russia witnessed a genu- ine museum boom. Hundreds o f palaces, mansions and estates were national- ized and turned into museums. Art historians and scholars devised the most incredible plans for transforming and utilizing these unique cultural monu- ments. Almost all o f the palaces that formerly belonged to the Romanovs in Petrograd and its environs were transformed into museums o f history and everyday life. (See Appendix A.) Georgii Lukomskii, the first director o f the palace-museums at Detskoe Selo (formerly Tsarskoe Selo), summed up the first years o f their existence as follows: The system o f transforming the palaces into museums adopted by the Commission [on Museum Affairs] (in other museums it was almost the same, except for the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg) was quite distinct from that used by curators in the former royal residences o f Western Europe. As a matter o f fact, the Residenzschlossen in both Munich and Dresden and in Vienna (the Hotburg and Sh6nnbrun) were adapted in quite a different way. Even the period

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