Mar-a-Lago

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Russian art collection



During the 1930s, the Soviet government under Joseph Stalin began selling art treasures and other valuables seized from the Romanov family and former Russian aristocrats after the Russian Revolution to earn hard currency for its industrialisation and military armament programs. Critics have claimed that these items were expropriated; however, Post and Davies's transactions were from the recognised governmental authority. Neither she 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 Post and Davies, 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 Stalin's Terror at discount prices from Soviet authorities.



Many of the items, which remain under the control of the Post estate or its agents, can be viewed at Hillwood, her former estate. Hillwood has operated as a private museum since Post's death and displays her French and Russian art collection, featuring the work of Fabergé, Sèvres porcelain, French furniture, tapestries, and paintings.

Stalin put the dic in dictator.

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Personal life



Post married four times. In 1905, she married investment banker Edward Bennett Close of Greenwich, Connecticut, and they divorced in 1919. Together, they had two daughters:



*Adelaide Close (1908–1998), who married three times, to Thomas Wells Durant, Merrall MacNeille, and Augustus Riggs IV.



*Eleanor Post Close (1909–2006), later known in the media as "Eleanor Post Hutton", married six times, to film director Preston Sturges, Etienne Marie Robert Gautier, George Curtis Rand, Hans Habe, Owen D. Johnson (son of author Owen Johnson), and orchestra conductor Léon Barzin.



Via his second marriage, Edward Bennett Close would later become the paternal grandfather of actress Glenn Close.



Post was married for a second time, in 1920, to financier Edward Francis Hutton. In 1923, he became the chairman of the board of the Postum Cereal Company, and they developed a larger variety of food products, including Birdseye Frozen Foods. The company became the General Foods Corporation in 1929. Post and Hutton divorced in 1935. They had one daughter]Dina Merrill[/color].



This is Dina Merrill, an actress. She died in 2017 at the age of 93.



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In 1935, Post married her third husband, Joseph E. Davies, a Washington, D.C. lawyer. They had no children and were divorced in 1955. From 1937 to 1938, in a crucial period leading up to World War II, Davies served as the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, ruled at that time by Joseph Stalin. During this time, Davies and Post acquired many valuable Russian works of art from Soviet authorities.



In 1951, their Long Island estate, which she had purchased in 1922 with Hutton, located in Brookville, New York, was sold to Long Island University for $200,000. It became C.W. Post College in 1954, now known as LIU Post. In 1966, she became honorary housemother of Zeta Beta Tau's Gamma Delta chapter, often hosting the fraternity brothers for brunches. Post served as the honorary house mother of the college's first local fraternity, Sigma Beta Epsilon, which, in 1969, became the New York Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Since Post had borne only girls, she referred to the fraternity of sons-in-law as her "boys", while they called her "Mother Marjorie". Post was honored by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity as a "Golden Daughter of Minerva".



Her final marriage, in 1958, was to Herbert A. May, a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman and the former master of fox hounds of the Rolling Rock Hunt Club in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. That marriage ended in divorce in May 1964 and she subsequently reclaimed the name Marjorie Merriweather Post.



Post died at her Hillwood estate on September 12, 1973, after a long illness, and was buried there. The bulk of her estate was left to her three daughters.



In popular culture



She appears as a character in the movie Mission to Moscow (1943), played by Ann Harding.



As of 2008, a film based on The New York Times feature "Mystery on Fifth Avenue", describing a riddle-laden renovation of a triplex undertaken by Eric Clough and the architectural firm 212box, built for Merriweather Post in the 1920s, was in development by J. J. Abrams.



Animal Collective's 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion is named for the pavilion that bears her name.

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I have not been to Mar-a-Lago but I have frequented Hillwood, taking visiting family there to soak in the splendor.



This is inside Hillwood. This image shows only a few of the French and Russian art collections that Marjorie Merriweather Post possessed.



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Can you imagine how filthy rich these people are? Wow.

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Every room made me gasp.



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Every room made me gasp.



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It looks gay.

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Part of Hillwood Gardens.



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Every room made me gasp.



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It looks gay.

Que?



No.



I love this stuff. I would be a great museum docent.

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This is the theatre where they would bring company to watch films.



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Part of Hillwood Gardens.



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That is kind of cool.