Михаил Пиотровский на открытии выставки «Фаберже - ювелир Императорского двора», 24 ноября 2020 Г-н Пиотровский, 24 ноября при вашем участии в Эрмитаже открылась выставка…
RuzhnikovJanuary 12, 2021
News & Reviews
On December 2 Sotheby’s offered a dozen items of Fabergé decommissioned from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The ensemble was valued at £1-£1.4 million, but…
RuzhnikovDecember 22, 2020
Boy, was I pissed off on November 23 when I tried to log on to Christie’s website and register for bidding, five minutes before their…
RuzhnikovDecember 20, 2020
All auctions are the same: a few good lots – with the top ones often vastly overpriced – complemented by auction-fillers and shop-worn dealer-stock. Sotheby’s…
RuzhnikovDecember 1, 2020
Sotheby’s Picture Sale (on-line thru December 1) is overflowing with Aivazovskys, led by Lot 28: a Shipwreck off the Black Sea Coast (1887). This pulsating look at the…
RuzhnikovNovember 20, 2020
On December 2 Sotheby’s are offering 17 items of Fabergé & Vertu from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Twelve of the lots are by Fabergé,…
RuzhnikovNovember 18, 2020
Thanks to lockdowns, quarantines and coronavirus, the days of Russian Week parties, viewings, packed salerooms and posted catalogues are no more. On-line catalogues, as a…
RuzhnikovNovember 17, 2020
Выпуск Новой газета № 122 от 6 ноября 2020 посвящен альбому «Окаянные годы. Революция в России глазами художника Ивана Владимирова». Полный репортаж на сайте Новой…
RuzhnikovNovember 11, 2020
Bonhams’ sale in November opens with a bunch of lacklustre Russian hallway pictures from the lower end of the market…. nothing to e-mail home about.…
RuzhnikovNovember 9, 2020
ALERT READERS MAY REMEMBER an article entitled A Fabergé Farago of Fakes and Impostors published on this website on May 2 and, if so, will…
RuzhnikovAugust 18, 2020
Christie’s 305-lot on-line auction, which ran July 1-21, was of very average quality, and had only five prices of over £100,000 (times were when they’d…
RuzhnikovJuly 27, 2020
Sotheby’s Russian sale in June did pretty well, as we reported earlier. Christie’s 305-lot on-line auction didn’t get going till July 1 (running through July…
RuzhnikovJuly 15, 2020
