The Russian art market has cooled off after a ten-year period of rapidly ascending prices.  Various reasons are given for this such the situation in Ukraine, the collapsing ruble and oil price and US-led sanctions.   These all contribute to the real reason which is uncertainty.  Many Russian art collectors have diversified outside of Russia,
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Family Jewels Faberge heirs buy back the name and relaunch the jeweller by Ivan Lindsay Fabergé, jeweller to the last tsars, the British royal family and the European aristocracy before WWI, has been re-launched this summer by Sarah and Tatiana Fabergé.  The two cousins, the last surviving great-granddaughters of Peter Carl Fabergé, have teamed up
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