Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. ILLUSTRATIONS viii
4. A NOTE ON THE TEXT xi
5. PREFACE xii
6. Prologue 1
7. PART ONE THE COLLECTOR BROTHERS
8. CHAPTER I. The Gentleman Who Slept in His Box at the Bolshoy 7
9. CHAPTER II. Luther’s Bible 13
10. CHAPTER III. The Tragic Tales of the Older Brothers Nikolai and Petr 19
11. CHAPTER IV. Dmitry Shchukin ‘The Dutchman’ 35
12. CHAPTER V. Ivan Shchukin Portrait of the Younger Brother as a Parisian Dandy 47
13. PART TWO Sergei Shchukin
14. CHAPTER VI. An Oligarch in Moscow 61
15. CHAPTER VII. Strangers on a Train 71
16. CHAPTER VIII. The Storm 83
17. CHAPTER IX. The Debacle 96
18. CHAPTER X. In the Footsteps of Moses 108
19. CHAPTER XI. The Price of a King’s Wife 125
20. CHAPTER XII. Harmonie en Rouge 137
21. CHAPTER XIII. The Two Orphans 149
22. CHAPTER XIV. Quo Vadis? 160
23. CHAPTER XV. La Danse and La Musique 171
24. CHAPTER XVI. The City of All- Night Revels 187
25. CHAPTER XVII. Picasso the Hypnotist 196
26. CHAPTER XVIII. Portrait of a Chinese Patriarch 209
27. CHAPTER XIX. The Acropolis of the Arts 220
28. CHAPTER XXI. The World’s First Museum of Modern Art 237
29. CHAPTER XXII. Time Regained 249
30. Postscript: The Collector of the Future 259
31. ENDNOTES 260
32. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 275
33. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 278
34. INDEX 282