A.K. Rudanovsky

Rudanovsky, Agathon also opened his antique boutique at 16 Morskaya street, Central Petrograd.

[2] With the onset of the Communist Revolution in 1917, the Russian art and financial community went into panic, and aristocrats flocked to the partners of A.K.

Rudanovsky and Fabergé rapidly accumulated valuable items to create one of the finest art and antique collections of Russia and Europe.

After acquiring it, Rudanovsky donated large portions of this newly acquired art to museums (mainly the Hermitage, but some smaller collections can be found at the Louvre and at the Metropolitan Museum).

The remainder was hidden with the aim of protecting it for future generations at Agathon's dacha.