Books By Cynthia Coleman Sparke - Author

Having grown up in a family of Russian art collectors and lived on and off in Moscow and St Petersburg, Cynthia Coleman Sparke was destined for the field. After running the Russian department at Christie's NY, she worked with the Faberge and Imperial porcelain holdings of the Hillwood Museum in Washington D.C. (the largest collection of Russian decorative arts outside of Russia). Then followed a project in St Petersburg at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo helping with the restoration of Tsar Nicholas II's last residence - the subject of her Master's thesis from the Bard Graduate Center. She is currently a consultant for Bonhams specialising in Russian works of art.