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And then—Catherine the Great’s obsession. 

No Romanov did more for Russian art. 

She hoarded masterpieces like a dragon: Rembrandt, Raphael, Van Dyck.

She bought entire collections from bankrupt European nobility, creating the Hermitage Museum, today one of the world's greatest art troves.

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