A Russian emigre's memoir of 30 years in the heart of the art world as Director of exhibitions at New York's prestigious Wildenstein Gallery.

The inside story of dealing in million-dollar masterpieces, price-fixing at auctions, forgeries and theft, glimpses of famous Russians: the painter Marc Chagall, the composer Igor Stravinsky, the singer Fyodor Chaliapin, the writer Ivan Bunin.

New insights on individuals such as Presidents John Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Erich Maria Remarque, Salvador Dali, and Henri Matisse.

A tale of a life that moved from Kiev and the Russian Revolution to Berlin, to Paris of the roaring 1920s, the horrors of World War II, the whirl of New York's art world - and a bittersweet return to a very different Kiev.

This unique chronicle by a Russian about America's art world is an exciting read. Fair warning.