Billionaire To Open Russia’s First Private Museum

Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian mining and oil billionaire is making the investment. “Mr Vekselberg’s new museums will display works drawn from his own holdings which include the Forbes Fabergé collection of Imperial eggs purchased from Sotheby’s in a private sale in 2004 for an undisclosed price which sources estimate at around $120 million. They will also show art belonging to other Russian collectors.”