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The Russian art collection that had belonged to Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich and was purchased by a Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov at the Sotheby's Auction House will be exhibited in the Konstantinovsky Palace in the environs of St Petersburg, not far from the Baltic Star Hotel. The businessman announced that his choice was due to Galina Vishnevskaya’s wish to station the collection in the northern capital. There are many museums and palaces in Saint Petersburg, but the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, one of mansion-houses of the president of the Russian Federation, is the only one that does not have its own permanent exposition as yet.
The most important museums of Russia pretended to accommodate the collection – the Russian Museum, the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The Tretyakov Gallery was willing to exhibit some masterpieces of Brullov, Repin, Serov, Grigoriev and Rerikh for its turn.
The collection of the famous violoncellist and the opera singer amounts to about 850 items of the 18th-20th centuries – paintings, portrait miniatures and chinaware. Among painters we can mention Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Alexander Ivanov, Nikolai Rerikh. According to Alisher Usmanov, his purchase was dictated by necessity to keep the collection intact in Russia for future generations. Audience will be able to see all these works of art by Christmas.
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