Editing Marjorie Merriweather Post (section)

===Russian art collection===
According to the [[Hermitage Museum]] Foundation, Post was a [[Russophilia|Russophile]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hermitagemuseumfoundation.org/files/8613/5767/3050/Newsletter-January-2010.pdf|title=Hermitage Museum Foundation Newsletter|work=Hermitage Museum Foundation website|date=January 2010|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=December 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217024338/http://www.hermitagemuseumfoundation.org/files/8613/5767/3050/Newsletter-January-2010.pdf}}</ref><ref>Dworkin, Scott (February 5, 2017). [http://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/828308379667947523 Trump Hosted Event for Putin Sr Advisor at Mar a Lago in 2010]. Dworkin website. [https://twitter.com/funder/status/828308379667947523 Archived] from the original November 26, 2020. [https://archive.today/20201217022702/https://twitter.com/funder/status/828308379667947523 Archived] from the original December 17, 2020.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gutierrez|first=Rual|url=https://medium.com/@themexican/trumps-russian-connections-a-handy-timeline-d5a820ee1ac5|title=Trump's Russian Connections, A Handy Timeline|work=[[The Medium]]|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=March 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301224955/https://medium.com/@themexican/trumps-russian-connections-a-handy-timeline-d5a820ee1ac5}}</ref> During the 1930s, the Soviet government under [[Joseph Stalin]] began selling art treasures and other valuables seized from the [[House of Romanov|Romanov family]] and former Russian aristocrats after the [[Russian Revolution]] to earn hard currency for its industrialization and military armament programs. Critics{{who|date=August 2016}} have claimed that these items were expropriated; however, the transactions by Post and her third husband, [[Joseph E. Davies]],{{efn|Joseph E. Davies was the [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Russia|United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union]] from November 23, 1936 to June 11, 1938. He wrote about his experiences in the 1941 book ''Mission to Moscow''.}} were from the recognized governmental authority.<ref name=Wright>{{cite book| last=Wright| first=William| title=Heiress: The Rich Life of Marjorie Merriweather Post| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gik1AAAAIAAJ&q=russian+art| publisher=New Republic Books| year=1978| isbn=978-0915220366| pages=164–165}}</ref> Neither Post nor Davies were involved with the original seizing of the items. Allegations later surfaced that many works of art from the [[Tretyakov Gallery]] and other collections were either donated or offered at nominal prices to the couple, who were both art collectors. Davies is also alleged to have purchased art expropriated from Soviet citizens well after the Russian Revolution, including victims of [[Great Purge|Stalin's Terror]] at discount prices from Soviet authorities.<ref name=Wright/><ref>{{cite book| last=Tzouliadis| first=Tim| title=The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKNf4v80tlgC&q=russian+art| publisher=[[Penguin Group|Penguin Press]]| date=July 17, 2008| isbn=978-1-59420-168-4}}</ref>

Many of the items, which remain under the control of the Post estate or its agents, can be viewed at [[Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens|Hillwood]], her former estate.<ref name="Fabrikant"/> Hillwood has operated as a private museum since Post's death and displays her French and Russian art collection, featuring the work of [[House of Fabergé|Fabergé]], [[Manufacture nationale de Sèvres|Sèvres porcelain]], French furniture, tapestries, and paintings.<ref name="NYTObit"/>