This luxurious presentation takes the reader on a breathtaking tour through the most magnificent mansions in St. Petersburg, Russia, built by the prerevolutionary aristocracy.
Thierry Morel is a curator, scholar and author. He curated the groundbreaking exhibition Houghton Revisited and contributed to the catalogue Houghton Revisited: The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great s Hermitage. He is a former director of the Hermitage Foundation UK and a member of the Advisory Board of the Hermitage Foundation USA. Elizaveta Renne is a curator at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia and the author of numerous catalogues of itrs collections including Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century British Painting: State Hermitage Museum Catalogue.