Beauty collector Marjorie Merriweather Post
Beauty collector Marjorie Merriweather Post
Marjorie Merriweather Post valued beauty, elegance, graciousness, and spent her life literally among the treasures. During her life she owned the exquisite gardens, collections, and estate. The only child of Ella Merriweather Post and Charles William Post, she became the wealthiest woman in the United States at the age of 27, the owner of the $20 million cereal company, later known as the General Foods Corporation. She was married four times, and her third husband, the second US ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph Davies brought her to the Soviet Russia. The couple lived in the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938, under Joseph Stalin. Living in Russia, Joseph Davies and Marjorie Post, both collectors, acquired many valuable Russian works of art from Soviet authorities. She died at the age of 86, and now her collection, in all its splendor, is opened for the public’s enjoyment.
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