Sketch Vasnetsova stolen from a collector in St. Petersburg

[SergeiSK]

From the private collection in St. Petersburg was kidnapped sketch for the painting "The Knight at the Crossroads" painter Viktor Vasnetsov, reported on July 19, Interfax quoted a source in law enforcement bodies of the city.
Theft occurred between noon Saturday, July 17, to Sunday night, when the landlord, a man born in 1948, his family was at the dacha. A man called the police 18 July, in a statement indicating that the thief entered through a window. Cost sketch its owner assessed at 20 thousand euros.
The painting "The Knight at the Crossroads" was completed Vasnetsov in 1882, and work on it the artist began back in 1870: it then appeared the first pencil sketches for a painting. They, in particular, shows that the knight's head was originally turned to the viewer, whereas the final version of the picture look of a warrior turned to stone with its epic written in the texts.
The cloth is kept in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
(Lenta.Ru)