Collections in General Research Division

Vladimir Teteriatnikov was a conservator and restorer of icons and author of "Icons and Fakes" (privately published in 1981). Mr. Teteriatnikov has received public attention by challenging the authenticity of some of the Russian icons from the well-known collection of the late Pittsburgh aviation industrialist George R. Hann that went on the block at Christie's auctioneers in 1980. Collection consists of clippings on the professional interests of Vladimir Teteriatnikov as a world expert on Russian icons. It includes his articles, correspondence, photographs and slides of icons from different collections, and articles from Russian emigre press in 1920s-1930s. less