The confiscation of the painting "Christ in the sepulchre" recognized as legitimate. The owners will not give it. As they say, who would doubt

Completes a long paradoxical history.

In 2003, our former and late German collector Alexander Pevzner was brought to Russia bought them in Belgium on canvas, Karl brulloff. Thought temporarily (to make the examination in the Russian Museum and back), and found that all. The Museum confirmed the authenticity, and then joined the case of the FSB, Pevsner was charged with "false Declaration" (smuggling, article 188, part 2), the most allowed to go to Germany, and the painting was confiscated into evidence. And placed in storage in the Russian Museum, where it was restless, reaching numerous courts. Several courts Pevzner won, but later lost. This year the collector desperately addressed the HRC, asked ""to put the President aware of the gross violation of the rights of foreign citizens". And even began to feel that there's a chance.

But today, in to "Interfax", the judicial Board on criminal cases of the Russian Supreme court issued a final decision on the confiscation of paintings by Karl Briullov citizens of Germany of Alexander and Irina Pevzner. The picture will leave in the Russian Museum, where it is already more than 10 years. The status of evidence the painting had no right to restore. Now, probably, will begin.

What can I say? In principle, the detail is not important, "skhimichil" Pevzner documents or wrong does not matter. The painting was his, and now his paintings are not. Case Pevsner has already had and will continue to have a negative impact on the business-климата in the antique field. Collectors and dealers are so arranged that believe more so, and not the attentions of the Public chamber and at other high levels.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

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