Les frères Morozov, mécènes et collectionneurs

In Moscow in 1917, the wind of the Bolshevik revolution swept through Russian society and established a new order. Art did not escape this upheaval and Lenin nationalized the great private collections, including the one of the brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov. For a little more than twenty years, these Moscow patrons of the arts, who came from the serfdom and became textile billionaires, accumulated a fabulous collection of works of art. Masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Maurice Denis and others are displayed on their walls. This film recounts the fate of this family with its flamboyant personalities and their collections which, after some incredible events, were divided between the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad.