Boris Wassiljewitsch Legran
Boris Wassiljewitsch Legran ( Russian Борис Васильевич Легран , scientific transliteration Boris Vasil'evič Legran ; * 1884 , † 1936 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet diplomat .
Life
Legran was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and later in life a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Legran was ambassador to Armenia in the 1920s . From 1931 to 1934 he was director of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg . His successor in office was Joseph Orbeli . During his time as director of the Hermitage, he sold various works and paintings from the Hermitage to an American consortium led by the banker Andrew William Mellon and to the Armenian art dealer Calouste Gulbenkian .
Annunciation by Jan van Eyck (1434) acquired from the Hermitage by Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in 1850; sold to Andrew Mellon in June 1930 for $ 502,899
The Alba Madonna by Raphael , bought by the Hermitage from Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in 1836; sold to Andrew Mellon by the Soviet government in 1931 for $ 1,166,400, the most expensive painting sale of its time
St. George and the Dragon , by Raphael, bought for the Hermitage by Tsarina Catherine the Great in 1772; sold to Andrew Mellon in 1931
Web links
- Los Angeles Times: Russian will review art sales , Dec. 9, 2008
- RBth: Lost Treasures: To whom and for what the Bolsheviks sold the works of art of the Tsars, November 28, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian will review art sales. In: Los Angeles Times . December 9, 2008.
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| SURNAME | Legran, Boris Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Legran, Boris Vasilyevich; Legran, B .; Легран, Борис Васильевич (Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1884 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1936 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |