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Russian icons at Hillwood. .
When Marjorie Merriweather Post (see p.82, PL I) arrived in Moscow in January 1937 as the wife of the United States Ambassador Joseph E. Davies (1876-1958), nothing in her background could have prepared her to become a collector of Russian icons. Since first beginning to collect in the 1920s, her tastes had been firmly focused on eighteenth-century French furniture, porcelain, and gold boxes. As a staunch Christian Scientist she can have felt little empathy for the Russian Orthodox Church, with its splendid rituals and faith in the miraculous. Yet icons and liturgical items used in the Orthodox rite became the most evocative mementos of Marjorie Post's Soviet adventure ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Russian icons at Hillwood. .