Abducted imperial edicts back to archive
ARTinvestment.RU   25 июня 2008

In Yekaterinburg, a retired antiques dealers, two documents that had previously been stolen from the Russian State Historical Archive

Ekaterinburg from antiques dealers removed the two documents that had previously been stolen from the Russian State Historical Archive. This was on Monday 23 June, the head of «antique Division» GUVD of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region Vladislav Kirilov.

St. Petersburg police officers and employees of the State Rossvyazohrankultury back handwritten decree of Emperor Alexander I and Nicholas II, dated 1825 and 1908 years. The decree refers to the awarding of senior government officials. Traders estimate the value of each document to 300 thousand rubles.

Decrees were stolen employee Archive Feinberg (now fleeing to Israel) and his accomplices. In 1994-1995, the gang stole a large quantity of documents. Includes archive of 1 517 are missing the most valuable pieces, the total value of more than a million dollars.

Later, a large number of the missing documents had been returned to Russia by foreign countries, as well as local investigators found.

Source : www.rian.ru



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