Geraldine Norman, Mikhail Piotrovsky
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From Peter the Great’s purchase of the Tauride Venus in 1719, a Greek statue of a naked woman - reproduced on the front cover – the Hermitage collecti
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on has suffered one scandal after another. There have been scandalous attributions, financial and political scandals, thefts, corrupt construction, shocking contemporary art …..This book traces and explains them and can be read as a handbook of museum scandals, for all major museums have similar problems.
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