Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
A Note on the Text x
Preface xi
Prologue 1
Part 1 The Collector Brothers
I The Gentleman Who Slept in His Box at the Bolshoy 7
II Luther's Bible 13
III The Tragic Tales of the Older Brothers: Nikolai and Petr 19
IV Dmitry Shchukin: 'The Dutchman' 35
V Ivan Shchukin: Portrait of the Younger Brother as a Parisian Dandy 47
Part 2 Sergei Shchukin
VI An Oligarch in Moscow 61
VII Strangers on a Train 71
VIII The Storm 83
IX The Debacle 96
X In the Footsteps of Moses 108
XI The Price of a King's Wife 125
XII Harmonie en Rouge 137
XIII The Two Orphans 149
XIV Quo Vadis? 160
XV La Danse and La Musique 171
XVI The City of All-Night Revels 187
XVII Picasso the Hypnotist 196
XVIII Portrait of a Chinese Patriarch 209
XIX The Acropolis of the Arts 220
XX The Exiles 228
XXI The World's First Museum of Modern Art 237
XXII Time Regained 249
Postscript: The Collector of the Future 259
Endnotes 260
Select Bibliography 275
Acknowledgements 278
Index 282