Orthodox Easter celebrations, expensive gifts of love, oligarchs and a marketing talent, the spa metropolis Baden-Baden and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.
What do they have in common?
First of all, the boundless indignation of a Russian art and antiques dealer.
Andre Ruzhnikov, the London dealer, describes the exhibition “Fabergé, court jeweler” currently running in the Hermitage as the “encyclopedia of forgeries” in a letter to the director Michail Piotrowski. At least twenty exhibits are fake. The alleged falsifications are loans from two private museums.