Baron Eduard von Pfalz-Fein collector of Russian art .. ..

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Eduard - personality is extremely bright, a landmark (Baron recently celebrated its 90 th anniversary, and this is truly an epoch) and original. Eduard Pfalz-Fein was born in Russia for five years before the 1917 revolution. His grandfather from his mother, Infantry General Nikolai Yepanchin in those days served as Director of the privileged military educational institutions of Russia - His Imperial Majesty's Corps, which was famous throughout Russia for its graduates

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In 1917, five Edward along with his parents stayed with his grandfather in St. Petersburg and actually witnessed the October Revolution. Edward remembers little about those hazy days, knows only that his grandfather, the general narrowly escaped being shot. Family little Edward in full force fled abroad - in Germany. After two years of strong emotional experiences, the father of the future Baron died, so that the education of the boy took up his grandfather. It was he who instilled in her grandson a great love for Russia, its culture and language. Eduard lifelong dream to visit Russia, but for the then Soviet Union, he was an outcast, "an enemy of the people." And the title of Baron too rasp of Soviet officials. Also matured Falz-Fein wanted to go to a free Russia, and to this day the baron to live no longer counted.

But fate gave Falz-Fein longevity, and Russia - the change of regime. In 1991, nearly eighty-year-old man has finally received the first official invitation from the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin. However, the definition of "elder" does not fit the Baron, which even today retains an enviable clarity of mind and generally looks good. It is worth noting that for almost all his adult life Baron not only remembered for his homeland, but also tried every way to help her. At least within the charity.
Eduard is known primarily from the fact that the collected (and continue to collect), objects of art brought from Russia in the chaotic days of the October Revolution and the ensuing civil war. Moreover, all bought at auctions or from private owners of art baron gave Russia's museums. In particular, thanks to Eduardo Falz-Fein had returned such exciting exhibits as the sculptural impression of the hands of genius Chaliapin, portrait of Prince Potemkin Levitsky, which has great historical value of a Persian carpet, which was presented at the 300 th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty Emperor Nicholas II (in this carpet were skillfully depicted all members of the royal family).

For nearly ten years of tireless Baron along with his other well-known journalist and writer Julian Semyonov tried to trace the famous Amber Room stolen by the German occupiers during the Second World War. Dozens of experienced criminologists and historians from across Europe were in the "search team" Baron, but their investigation has not yielded the expected results. Over the past several years, Baron has built two churches in Ukraine, where his mother was born, and also gave significant funds for the restoration of the Church of the Corps of Pages, in a building which - Vorontsov Palace - had long been in St. Petersburg Suvorov Military School. Eduard von Pfalz-Fein rightly expects that the memory of his grandfather, General Yepanchin will be immortalized at least within the walls of this military institution.

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