Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 1925. Illustrated... Lot 201

Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 1925. Illustrated English-language guide to the museum. Uncut copy. In-8° format, 61 pages. Good condition. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, Hermitage researcher and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.