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Virginia: Art Service International. 1998. — 344 p. — ISBN-0883971275 The Hillwood Museum in Washington houses the Russian Imperial and European art collected by Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post, an accomplished businesswoman and passionate connoisseur. The collection is unique in the United States and probably in the world outside Russia and was started when Post accompanied her husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, to Russia in 1937-38. Excellent photographs convey the beauty of the house and the splendor with which it was decorated. The collection contains pieces in every artistic medium?porcelain, landscape paintings, portraits, furniture, gold and silver objects, crystal, enamel boxes, and more?and each piece is a work of the highest quality and so arranged that one understands the full range of Russian Imperial achievement in the visual arts. This volume should be included in every library where works on Russian art and culture are collected. Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), Heiress To The Post Cereal Fortune, Became A Serious Collector Of French Decorative Art In The Early 1920s. Her Extended Stay In Moscow As The Wife Of Joseph E. Davies, Fdr's Ambassador To The Soviet Union, Sparked A Passion For Russian Art That Continued Until Her Death. Ultimately She Formed The Most Comprehensive Imperial Russian Collection Outside Russia. Mrs. Post's Collection At Hillwood, Her Grand Residence In Washington, D.c., Includes Paintings, Furniture By Such Masters As Jean-henri Riesener And David Roentgen, Porcelain From Sevres And The Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory, Objets D'art By Faberge (two Superb Imperial Easter Eggs) And Cartier, And Much More. At Hillwood, Mrs. Post Displayed Her Russian Acquisitions In The Context Of Her French Decorative Art. In This Publication, Russian Objects Have Been Placed In Their European Context, Allowing For The Unique Opportunity To Rediscover The Interaction Of Creative Design Between Russia And Western Europe. Foreword / Mikhail Piotrovskii -- Years Of Reigns Of Russian And French Monarchs -- Marjorie Merriweather Post: Collector With A Passion For Beauty / Frederick J. Fisher -- The Selling Of Russian Art And The Origins Of The Hillwood Collection / Anne Odom -- The Lure Of Luxury: French Fashions And Trends In Eighteenth-century Decorative Arts / Liana Paredes Arend -- Russian Patronage And European Culture / Anne Odom -- Catalog Of Works: The Tradition Of Pre-petrine Russia. The Ascent Of French Decorative Arts. Classicism And The Enlightenment. The Unity Of The Empire Style. The Last Flowering Of Classicism And Court Art. Historicism And International Expositions. The Decline Of The Luxury Arts -- Notes On Art Conservation At Hillwood: Conserving The Collector's Intent / Albert Marshall. Anne Odom And Liana Paredes Arend ; Foreword By Mikhail Piotrovskii ; With Contributions By Frederick J. Fisher, Wendy R. Salmond, And Albert Marshall. Organized And Circulated By Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 329-332) And Index. Marjorie Merriweather Post exhibited a taste for splendor in her collecting and in the furnishing of Hillwood, her residence in Washington, D.C. She first began to acquire Sevres porcelain and French furniture and tapestries in the 1920s and became interested in Russian art in 1937, when she lived in the Soviet Union as wife of the Ambassador. She continued to collect both French and Russian art for the rest of her life, eventually amassing the largest and most comprehensive Russian collection outside of Russia. This volume views the masterpieces in the Hillwood collection in chronological fashion without regard to national origin, allowing an understanding of Russian art of the 18th and 19th centuries within a broader European context.