We at Playbill Arts usually devote our Photo Journals to opera productions or new concert halls. But we thought it would be worthwhile to offer a look, at left and below, at the treasures Slava and Galina gathered over the years — from porcelain for the Tsar's court to finely worked enamelware to one of early 20th-century Russia's most important paintings.
The Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Collection of Russian Art — 350 lots estimated to be worth more than Ô£3 million in total — goes up for auction at Sotheby's in London on September 19 of this year. Information is available at www.sothebys.co.uk.
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All images courtesy of Sotheby's.
