Konstantin Akinsha is an independent scholar in Washington, D.C., and a contributing editor to "ARTnews" magazine. Grigorij Kozlov is a freelance art historian in Germany and a contributing editor to "ARTnews" magazine. Sylvia Hochfield lives in New York City and is editor at large for "ARTnews" magazine. Akinsha and Kozlov are the authors of "Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe's Art Treasures. "