A medium dive into the private libraries of the Romanovs
And why a large number of the books wound up in the US
A deep dive related to my bibliophilic interests led me recently down the path of the Russian Imperial Library, aka the Romanov dynasty’s personal libraries, and how the majority of the books ended up in the US and on the collectors’ market after 1917. In turn, this deep dive led to some details that I’m now going to be on the alert for when watching fi…
