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In a significant social history of Russia in the increase of the home of Romanov in 1613 to its fall in the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov efficiently unwinds the relationship between the noble household and artwork. Through the Romanov empire, Russia’s best thinkers and musicians, poets and painters, composers and performers, offered two experts. Commitment to craft—or principle—could never totally eclipse reliance on the tsars. Likewise, customers of European tradition might never reply without governmental thought: Volkov recounts how, in the 1836 initial of Glinka’s opera A Life for the Tsar, trendy viewers viewed Nicholas I in his personal container to determine how they need to behave.