CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword by Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky
  3. Preface by Geraldine Norman
  4. 1 Catherine’s Hermitage and Peter’s City
  5. 2 Catherine’s Collections
  6. 3 Paul and Alexander
  7. 4 Nicholas I and the New Hermitage
  8. 5 Twilight of the Romanovs
  9. 6 St Petersburg Collectors and Connoisseurs
  10. 7 The Shchukins and the Morozovs
  11. 8 The Revolution
  12. 9 The New State Hermitage
  13. 10 Art Sales
  14. 11 Archaeology
  15. 12 ‘Enemies of the People’
  16. 13 The Siege of Leningrad
  17. 14 Trophy Art
  18. 15 The Post-War Years
  19. 16 Piotrovsky and Son
  20. Epilogue
  21. Hermitage Staff Prosecuted by the Soviet Security Services
  22. Note on transliteration of Russian names
  23. Select Bibliography
  24. Acknowledgements
  25. Index
  26. Copyright