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The first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the worlds greatest collections of modern art A century of Russian culture distilled in the story of the life, family and collection of the lavish, lazy, kindly, eccentric grandson of a serf who brought Monet and Matisse to Moscow, waited three years for the right 'Blue Gauguin'and survived the first years of Bolshevik rule.Jackie Wullschlger, Read more