Kidnapped 1 April 2008 from the museum-apartment in Moscow four paintings of Nicholas Roerich declared in the international search

Abducted 1 April 2008 from the museum-apartment in Moscow four paintings of Nicholas Roerich declared in the international search. On this Friday, April 4, the head of the Office for Conservation of Cultural Property Rossvyazohrankultury Victor Petrakov. In order to inform the public, photos are posted on the official site Rossvyazohrankultury and specialized media. Petrakov also did not rule out attempts to export work overseas, as well as «at auctions for some of the Roerich collectors are willing to pay huge sums». For example, at the upcoming April auction «Sotheby's» picture of Nicholas Roerich «Pueblo Indians in Santa Fe» offered for auction with an initial value of 500-700 thousand dollars, and in 2006 the canvas «Lao-Tzu» was sold for 2.2 million dollars.

Cloth «News Shambala» (1946), «The shadow teacher» and «Boom Erdeni» (1947), as well as painting «Sergy-builder» (1940) were abducted on Tuesday from a Moscow museum-apartment of Yuri Roerich. The so-called Museum of flat, still with no official status, which once belonged to the famous orientalist Yuri Roerich - the son of Russian artist and philosopher Nicholas Roerich. Much of his legacy - the archives of the Central Asian expeditions, pictures and other material - kept here. After the death of Yuri Nikolaevich got the right to inherit his brother Svyatoslav, who ordered to transfer the scientific library of the Institute of Oriental Studies, and the remaining cultural property left in the apartment to create a memorial museum.

In an apartment on the 4 th floor on Leninsky Prospect thieves entered through the window climbs up ladders. They beat and tied up the owner of the apartment and the actual owner of the cultural heritage of Victor Vasilchikov. Then cut out frames of four pictures and went out - just a door.

Sources: www.tvkultura.ru ; www.izvestia.ru