Gokhran published a notice of holding a public auction No. 4 for implementation on the domestic market jewelry made of gold with precious stones from the state Fund of Russia. Auction will be held may 17, 2016 on the territory of Gokhran: Moscow, street of 1812, 14. Auction starts at 10:00. Enrollment ends may 6, 2016. May participate as legal entities and individual entrepreneurs. However, the notarized papers and statements will require so much that the rush to apply too late.

I Hasten to reassure those who are outraged by "cynical sellout of national heritage". Crown of the Russian Empire in safety. Will sell jewelry, even solid, but all-таки serial. That is, high-quality consumer goods. A large part of the 82 lots (over 1,000 individual items) — is earrings, rings and pendants with diamonds, released many of the Soviet factories Southwilliam: Baku, Yerevan, Odessa, Riga and other foreign factories now.

Why should the state need it? Is so tight with money that to Gokhran got?

In an interview to "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" the head of Gokhran Andrey Yurin commented on the purpose of the sale of state of jewels: "We started working on the structure of the State Fund of precious metals and precious stones. Goal — to exclude from the Fund that now is not meaningful to state, but meaningful to those whose business is connected with gems and precious metals, for people interested in jewelry. Thus, additional funds will receive funding from the Federal budget. In this regard, we have developed a special procedure which allowed to conduct auctions in new directions. And this year for the first time started these trades".

I like this quote. You know what? Try replacing "precious metals and precious stones" to "cultural values", and "State Fund of precious metals" on the "Museum Fund". Get exactly what you ARTinvestment.RU calls since 2012, — the idea of output on the secondary auction and draw things from the collections of museums.

Controversial? And that, in fact, wrong again?

Than 24 pairs of earrings, constituting 82-й lot in the auction catalogue of the Gokhran, are fundamentally different from 24 identical etchings of Ivan Shishkin in the Museum collections? In fact, nothing. From the state does not lose anything, quite the contrary. And scarce national art-рынку will definitely increase. And the sense of justice should not suffer. The current Gokhran when-то was a State repository of the values of the people's Commissariat for Finance, established by Lenin, including for warehousing selected from "contra" values. That, however, the Soviet rings and earrings is irrelevant.

Actually, the situation with the sale at auction of values from Gokhran is good because that opens the proverbial Overton window. What yesterday was "unthinkable" today becomes "acceptable", and tomorrow will be perceived as "reasonable." The pace idea auction sales of excess cultural values, languishing in the vaults, too, will soon be included in the range are valid. With jewelry, as it turns out, the state is not afraid of any abuse nor unfair experts who selected masterpieces instead of "doubles", or risk the sale on the cheap lured firms. It turns out that if you want to find and correct procedures, and legal mechanisms. Then why, I ask, afraid to repeat the same with non-unique cultural values?

do you Think it once before all-таки reach. Critics to let off steam, and the idea will rise to the next level — "Acceptable". And there already and to the level of "Reasonable" is not far away.

What to read on the topic:

Russian Newspaper: "Keep them Gokhran". Andrey Yurin — on plans for the sale of Soviet jewelry from the state Fund, diamond auctions and characteristics of control over the import and export of gems

AI: How do we reorganize iskrin"

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: gokhran.ru, rbc.ru