Treasures Elia Belutin remained in Russia

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Unique private art collection worth $ 2 billion for 150 years going by several generations of the family of the famous artist Elia Belutin. The collection includes paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Titian, El Greco, Rubens, Van Dyck and Velazquez. Three States, Poland, Lithuania and Russia, with varying success led diplomatic war over rights of priceless paintings. And that seems to be the heir undecided.
Home collection of paintings began in the 1870s. Belutin grandfather, an artist of the Moscow office of the Imperial Theatres Ivan Ye Grinyov, artist of the scenery in the Large and Small theaters, received a lot of money and went to Western Europe in the auction, where he focused acquisitions. He was going to set up a private museum. To this end, in 1904 even built a house-museum of seven rooms for the collection in the 2nd Krasnoselskoye Lane (demolished). However, in connection with the October Revolution in 1917 to carry out their plans, Green did not have time. [SPOILER]

To save the value, in 1919, he hid in the attic of a collection. "We invited Rybnikov, yesterday a student who has just started his career as a restorer, and all the paintings were wound onto rolls. Were cleaned frame, sculpture, and it was hid in the attic of the house. Top covered with matting and debris poured. " In 1919, Greene died of typhus, and bequeathed the collection to his wife to keep, if not absolute necessity. The collection has lain untouched in the attic until 1949. The widow lived all my life without selling a single thing, and she died at 98 years of age. After Grinyova left a widow, nee Princess Maria Kurbatova, the former almost forty years his junior. Pyotr married Mary, the former is already "old maid" in 1905, 73-year-old. After the death of the collector of his daughter married an Italian Michele Bellucci, who became a Russian Mikhail Belyutin.

When the young son of the family, at the request of his Italian grandfather - a famous opera conductor Paolo Stefano - called Alig (abbreviated - Eliem). In gratitude for his grandson conductor sent to Moscow painting "Madonna and Child with John the Baptist" by Giovanni Battista brush. Michael Belyutin continued to replenish the collection in-law, buying art at auctions, where the selling off of the confiscated property of the palaces of the Russian Tsars. So in the collection has paintings by Titian and Veronese. Family tradition has continued and grown-up Belyutin Ely, who had by that time to do some fighting at the front, get injured and marry Nina Moleva, heiress no less rich collection of values. Moleva collection begun by his grandfather Nina, tsarist general, was located in their Moscow home.

Soon, the house was moved and priceless collection Belyutin. It is known that after the war and meeting Belutin Moleva replenished several unique paintings and other valuables, the sources of which, however, remain a mystery. There is evidence Belutin service in counterintelligence, where he allegedly engaged in the postwar years, the displaced values. Hence, some experts believe, and got into his collection of works by Rembrandt and Titian, which would be the envy and secret backrooms Pushkin Museum of Fine. However, this version has no proof, and it is impossible to confirm the legitimacy of the "movement" of these values ​​in the private collection of the artist. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Moscow authorities have repeatedly offered the artist's family to open a gallery to make it available to the general public treasury.

Belyutin and Moleva seems to be agreed, even discussed the details, and met with officials, chose a room for the exhibition ... but the idea eventually abandoned. A collection stays behind closed doors in an old apartment on the Arbat, in a makeshift museum where the artist only occasionally and for the elite conducted tours. In 1993, a collection of nearly stolen. The owners had already fly to Italy, "but with passports was a delay, and they were sitting at home, drinking tea. And suddenly there was a terrible roar, the ceiling began to burst. "I ran upstairs, there was a communal, call (toll did not work) and with all the fluff hit the door. The door opened. The apartment - a single partition, the entire floor raised floor slab sawn into five beams around this hole is an electric lift with ropes and hooks, next - some people in camouflage and lying on the window sill of our collection catalog, published in Italy. It was scary. "

She rushed to call in the neighboring apartment. Then he dialed Krasnopresnensky district council, which then was in charge of the Reds. He arrived 15 minutes later and brought with him the chief police department and the district attorney. The people at the top of the apartment was gone - who would dare to hold them? "The existence of the apartment was an emergency because the top caved remained un-renovated apartment. In subsequent years, the Government of Moscow, according Moleva, assisted her husband with the pressure, "blackmailing" repair, property rights and the transfer of the collection of the Moscow government.

February 27, 2012 Ely Belyutin died. In August, a childless widow, entered the right of inheritance. And there was a sensational statement: the artist bequeathed part of his collection of the Polish State. Moleva later told me in an interview: "About two months after the death of her husband called me from the Polish embassy and offered to bury his remains in this country. I was very surprised about this because you never thought possible. There was also a letter from the mayor of Warsaw - he offered a place for my husband on the Walk of Fame. Began coaxing, saying that M. Ely had suffered so much from Russia would be better if you move to live in Poland. With all of his possessions, of course. " According to the story of the Polish journalist, on the contrary, "first and me and our diplomats woman took very welcome.

And talking about her desire to carry the paintings in Poland. But at some point, Ms. Moleva stated that neither me nor diplomats have more things she does not want to. Why, I can only build version. According to my information, Belyutin Moleva and tried to improve relations with the Polish side since the mid-90s. Rumor has it that the intention to pass a collection Poland Belyutin even expressed himself in his will, although no one has seen this paper. If we talk about the facts, one thing is certain: the remains Belutin still not committed to the earth. According to my hypothesis, Nina Moleva wished that her husband was buried in Warsaw, on the Walk of Fame - there lie the only major Polish. Of course, such a resolution to it no one has. This was the cause of the break. As far as I know, in our Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed to make any negotiations with Mrs Moleva not news. "

Tracking the story Polish and other European media in their articles and Moleva Belutin called "family Poles," by chance abandoned in Russia. However, this is not the case. Ely Belyutin never been to Poland. There went only by his wife. In 2000, after the inauguration of Vladimir Putin officially awarded the Medal of Honor Belutin Eliya. Later, during his visit to Moscow, President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski Belyutin presenting the award - King's Cross of the Order of the Renaissance in Poland. Similarly, the cross has been awarded and Nina Moleva, but this time the service was held in Warsaw. In parallel to the collection began to claim a third side - Lithuanian. According to media reports, Algirdas Brazauskas, who was then the president of Lithuania, who personally came to the apartment of collectors and handed them two fresh Lithuanian passport. In exchange for the collection Brazauskas suggested Belyutin Moleva and citizenship and an apartment in Vilnius. Warsaw was awaiting another complication: according to Russian law, in this type of donative imposed a 30 percent tax. If the evaluators will confirm the cost of collection within 1.5-2 billion dollars, the Poles would have to pay to the Russian budget from 450 to 600 million dollars. Obviously, knowing this, the Polish side will try to understate the value of art. Some experts fear that if the diplomats of the two countries do not come to a compromise, the collection will be exported from the Russian Federation in secret, with the Polish secret services. And then Russia will lose not only the unique works of art, but also the multi-million dollar revenues. However, in early February 2013 it was announced that Russia Moleva handed collection (from April 1, 2013). In the weeks before the apartment was visited top officials from the Kremlin, which Moleva reported that her desire to "pass a collection of the State in the person of its president" satisfied. The order signed by Putin. Condition - keep the integrity of the collection. Property Agency looks for a variety of accommodation collection adapted a detached room. At the entrance of the house, where he lives Moleva Nina, now the police on duty around the clock.

Collection Elia Belutin collection includes about 1 million objects, of which about 200 paintings.
Michelangelo's "Head of a Faun" Rubens, "Bacchanal" (sketch to the canvas in the Pushkin Museum), "Susanna and the Elders" by Leonardo da Vinci and Bernardino dei Conti "Madonna with the book" Titian, "The Penitent Magdalene" by Donatello, bust a member of the Medici El Greek Poussin Jordaens, "Bacchus" Murillo Van Dyck, "Portrait of Susanna Fourmen" sister wives Rembrandt Rubens, Veronese, "The sale of the birthright," Velasquez, "Portrait of a Man" Dosso Dossi, "Resting Venus" .........

Furniture: from Versailles, table Savva Morozov Kalashnikov ......

[Игорь Гурьев]

Yeah ...
Leonardo , Titian , El Greco, Rembrandt , Velazquez and others.
Lord, Lord ...

I 've seen similar " Titian " in Mexico City.
There on every other picture that Titian , then Lucas Cranach , the Botticelli, and in fact it later clumsy repetition.

However, Frans Hals there real.
I even wondered if I was crazy : it Hals also among this bullshit !
Checked for literature : yet so , Hals , real.
Maybe , and Belutin who stray . Can never be ruled out anything .

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Guriev, Igor, Anatoly, let's wait comments Samvel Aykazovich .. flood in this thread is not necessary ..

[Игорь Гурьев]

Сообщение от Eugene

Flooding in the subject is not necessary ..

I can remove if you wish.


Just this does not happen, you know, I can tell you a priori.

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Сообщение от Guriev, Igor

Just this does not happen, you know, I can tell you a priori.

Anatoly my opinion, everything happens in this world ..

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Treasures Elia Belutin remained in Russia

I wonder how they could have been taken out of Russia?
The state of bilateral agreements?

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If we talk about the facts, one thing is certain: the remains Belutin still not committed to the earth.

And it's like?

[luka77]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

And this is?

The ashes of the Artist is at home under his favorite Dutch altar of the XVI century, and "someday be scattered over the Oka River near Konstantinovo."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi0pcSrooPo


with 2.35 minutes

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Сообщение от luka77

Ashes Artist is at home under his favorite Dutch altar of the XVI century , and "someday be scattered over the Oka River near Konstantinovo ".

Got it, thanks .
Here's more :

Nina Moleva:

- The body of Elia Mikhailovich was cremated and his ashes stored while in Moscow 's Donskoi Monastery . I have not decided where he will be buried , but I do know one thing: Russian artist must be in the Russian land .

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