The musician known as Erté (obvious "Air-Tay") was born in 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia, to Russia's elite as well as given the name of Romain Petrovich de Tirtoff. Paradoxically, that was the same year The Nutcracker ballet premiered in St. Petersburg. His self-invented name, the phonetic combination of his initials R and T, would certainly e

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There are a lot of people available who imagine collecting art, yet never in fact do it, and this is a sobbing shame. Thankfully, entering into the art accumulating world in fact isn't as challenging as it might appear. It is really just a matter of diving in and getting going.The thing is that it is all as well very easy to take a look at all thos