Khanenko Museum
Collectors' mansion of Old Masters, Byzantine icons and Asian art in lavish period interiors.
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This guide to the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv follows Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko, a collecting couple who began buying art on an Italian honeymoon in the eighteen-seventies. It lingers on Varvara in the years after nineteen seventeen, when revolution reached the house that held everything they had gathered, and on the choices she faced there. Best heard standing in the mansion's period rooms, among the pictures they chose.
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