Collectors of Moscow. S.I. Shchukin, I.A. Morozov, I.S. Ostroukhov

The history of each collection can be divided into the fate of things and the fate of the person who collected them. The best pictures of French impressionists, as well as Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso, are owed to two Muscovites: the impudent Novator who did not afraid to shock the Moscow public, ruthless to competitors by Kommersant Sergei Schukin and millionaire Ivan Morozov, who was called Russian, who called Russian, which is not traded. " The third hero - Ilya Ostroukhov by profession was an artist, but by vocation - a collector and museum -museum, with incredible temperament, excitement and genuine passion, he bought French painting and Russian graphics, oriental bronze and ancient glass. It is he who was merit to the discovery of the artistic phenomenon of the Russian icon, in which completely different dignity were previously appreciated than the actual actual