Passion Drives an Emerging Art and Antiques Market

Lawyer Mikhail Barshchevsky stands in front of a painting depicting a wooden peasant house buried among high snowdrifts. “It’s beautiful,” Barshchevsky said, pointing to the canvas in a golden frame, harmonizing with the wall covered in dark-green fabric on which it is displayed. The painting, called “A Winter Day” by early 20th-century Russian artist Ivan […]