9.18.2007

Alisher Usmanov buys Mstislav Rostropovich's art collection


Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has purchased Mstislav Rostropovich's entire art collection for 20m dollars.

The Rostropovich artworks, collected over 30 years, include Faces of Russia by Boris Grigoriev, regarded by some critics as the most important post- revolutionary Russian painting.

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