French Painters, Russian Collectors: The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

Beverly Kean. Hodder & Stoughton, $24.95 (344pp) ISBN 978-0-340-60615-5

This updated edition tells of two prerevolutionary-Moscow merchants and their vast collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art, work that now resides in museums in St. Petersburg and Moscow. (Sept.)

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