Consul Jonas Lied and Russia; collector, diplomat, industrial explorer, 1910-1931.

9788274772861

Consul Jonas Lied and Russia; collector, diplomat, industrial explorer, 1910-1931.

Ed. by Marit Werenskiold.

Unipub

2008

191 pages

$59.00

Hardcover

CT1308

For over 20 years, Norwegian adventurer and business pioneer Lied (1881-1969) was in Russia and the Soviet Union fighting to open a permanent trade route between Western Europe and Asiatic Russia through the Barents and Kara Seas and the Siberian rivers Yenisei and Ob. Some historians explore his political and business activities, but most of the 11 essays are concerned with his collection of paintings, which was weighted toward imperial Russian artists. Among the topics are the collection and its significance for Russian art, some attitudes to the problem of the Lermontov and Krylov portraits in the collection, Lied in Siberia 1910-19, the idea of a northern sea route to Siberia, and whether he saved Spitsbergen for Norway. Distributed in the US by ISBS.

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