Archive Vasari goes to Russia

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The Court of Rome withdrew the arrest from the archive of the famous Renaissance painter and writer Giorgio Vasari, reports ANSA. So now there is nothing to prevent the registration of the sales transaction records. Heirs of Count Festari sell securities Vasari Russian company Ross Engineering .
Archive pupil Michelangelo was arrested in March. On suspicion of owners, the Italian authorities thus hoped to gain time to raise money to buy himself archive.
Complicated history with the sale of securities by Vasari stretches since 2009. During this time, Italian media reported that Russian businessman bought the paper for the improbable amount of 150 million euros that the same businessman was killed in an accident, and that despite a deal to sell all the same place.
Media, however, speculated that the sale of the archive Russians - fiction, through which the owners want to force the government to join the auction and buy a paper Vasari overpriced.
Finally, it was reported that over the status of national heritage archive will not be able to leave the city of Arezzo, even if it is sold to other party. Festari heirs argued that the fact that buyers from Russia does not stop.
It is believed that among the papers of the author of "Lives" are 17 letters by Michelangelo, the correspondence of several popes, as well as other famous Italians of the XVI century.
(Lenta.Ru)
a little bit more :
Company kupivshuyu archive, in the Italian press called it Ross Engineering, LLC is R. O. S. S. Engineering, then the Ross Group, even Reghiolalnie standarti servisa Inginiring. It is not clear, nor whom it belongs to the company, nor what it does. At the printing company called R. Ing, it was recorded in Moscow at the Yaroslavl highway, 68. On the maps of the Russian capital building with this number is not, but here's house 66 is located in the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "59 th arsenal Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense - Military Unit number 42697 (the former ammunition depot," manor Raev).
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ross, as found in the Corriere della Sera, is a businessman Vasily Stepanov. He was the buyer of the archive on behalf of his friend the oligarch, for which the "150 million - a negligible amount." This unnamed wealthy Armenian-Siberian roots, wood processing business and real estate in several European countries, was going (I think) to move to Italy and buy something big. " However, he died in a car accident on September 9. Corriere della Sera journalists have concluded from this that "the Russian retreat, hence, the archive Vasari does not threaten the export from Italy, for what, in fact, struggled in the face of the public mayor of Arezzo Giuseppe Fanfani. Meanwhile, no data on accidents involving wealthy Russians on September 9 newspaper people could not be found.
The story is not long in coming: after the material, which first became aware of the death of the buyer archive (28 October), the site Corriere della Sera (at the same time, 28) appeared a short article that aretinsky family lawyer graph Festari Guido Kozulich claims that no deal on archive as not to disrupt, and that negotiations are continuing. What kind of negotiations and anyone with whom - is unclear. The same day, La Nazione reported, based on the text of the agreement with R. Ing, an agent of the graph Festari - Roman businessman named Enrico De Martino - received a letter of guarantee from the Savings Bank of Russia, confirming the intention to Russian buyers.