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| | Anatole and Mathilde: Story of Their Marriage - Olga's Gallery |
 | | Anatole Demidoff, who was born in St. Petersburg in 1813, inherited the fabulous wealth that had been amassed over the previous hundred years by his family of iron masters and weapon suppliers to the Imperial armies, owners of rich mines of iron ore, gems and semi-precious stones in the Urals and South Siberia. |
 | | Anatole instinctively gravitated to the giants of the Modern Romantic Art Movement: Eugène Delacroix, who was given a number of commissions, Richard Parkes Bonington, whose watercolours Anatole collected in large numbers, and Théodore Géricault, whose watercolours of horses was added to the collections (Noon 2003). |
 | | Anatole for the above mentioned reasons; Mathilde, because it was her chance to escape the bored and frustrated life in exile among her father's successive mistresses; Jérôme's main purpose was to sell off his daughter at the highest price, and the Russian 'Napoleon-admirer', with his crazy billions, suited him nicely. |
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