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Great Travel Moment

Searching for art painted by a great-grandfather in the old country was our quest. The family had left Russia in 1917 with some rolled up paintings and photos of a hundred more of great-grandfather's works.In 2006,we established www.grandart.org and headed to Russia.First stop:The Hermitage.The curator escorted us to 3 paintings and gave us photos of 4 others not currently on display.Next:Yusupov Palace where we discovered one of his paintings that had never been documented before.Next: Moscow and The Russian State Museum of History.There we found the HRH Grand Duchess Olga Romanoff as a young girl(photo) as well as Sergei Alexandrovna Romanoff,currently on loan to the Mayor of Moscow!We are overjoyed that Great-Grandfathers work is of importance to the Russian people.Finally:Serednikovo Estate where he had painted"Demon and Tamara".A Russian poem which he had captured magnificently on the ceiling.So soon it was time to go home and plan another trip.Great-Grandfather would be proud.