St. Petersburg FSB detained researcher Hermitage for stealing prints from the Museum. As the press service of the FSB in St. Petersburg and the region, in January 2015 in the course of Commission audits of funds scientific library of the State Hermitage revealed the loss of a number of engravings of the eighteenth veka@

In the course of the activities of the FSB has identified a range of persons who may be involved in the theft of art history zennostei@

February 12, 2015 Investigation Management service opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime, including 4 tbsp. 158 of the criminal code (theft on an especially large scale"). On suspicion of committing a specified offence detained one of the employees of the scientific library of the State Hermitage@

In the course of investigative and operational activities undertaken by the library employee and his close friend, and in some antique shops Petersburg, discovered and seized a large number stolen from the State Hermitage Museum of engravings, lithographs, photographs, and antique books XVII - XIX VV@

February 16, became known to some more loud stolen from the vaults of the scientific library of the State Hermitage@

Revealed that an employee of the Museum library accused of stealing prints XVII - XIX centuries, "removed" valuable photographs, illustrations and prints directly from books, the art Fund, after which he sold the "extracted" in Russian magazino@

"employee of the library was sold in second-hand shops reproductions, engravings and pictures extracted from library books. A significant portion of these materials are found and returned," - said in a press release signed by the Director of the Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky

a Crime was solved by the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the region with the assistance of the security service musea@

Source: gazeta.spb.ru