Seema, I did not suspect you have misunderstood me ... I'm just interested in the far-gone huge number of paintings purchased annually in the USSR? Recently I read on this subject and zapostil section Soviet art conversation. There, people clearly believe that everything had been stolen and sold to the West for nothing.
And with Golden ADA, I did anyone suspected? there and so everything is clear - clean water scam, theft of national patrimony. Or not?

Seema, you get bored, and they are stolen!
And that's it!
and the fact that the Imperial jewels are exhibited in the Diamond Fund, so that's what they know almost everything.
But besides these jewels in Gokhran, throughout the lifetime of the USSR, flocked jewelry purchased from the population at the price of scrap in all skupochnyh points from all over the country.
And how much there and what there is, nobody has ever seen and does not know.
Gokhran very reluctant to share with people the information in this regard.
But researchers from the Kremlin Museums, sometimes, if you write some scientific work may be something to see and describe, in his work.
And so, all in secret!

No, not all!
The Hermitage weigh up!
-I would not be surprised if it turns out that your husband is secretly visiting a mistress! (c) :D

And Muscovites all are!

- If you know good man, then he must believe in always.
 - Oh, no, I believe that a person can be trusted only as a last resort. (c) :D

You seem to have been at the exhibition "Inventory of the archive" for the anniversary ROSIZO. Two floors were crammed. 2 articles in the catalog - Z. Tregulova and F. Balakhovskii. About the history of this state. repository. About the Directorate of exhibitions and panoramas, about the purchase and subsequent distribution, I myself to the museum from ROSIZO with the balance on the balance taken away. Well, it's boring to describe, it's professional affairs. In the last ministerial checking + in every museum is also MIA, etc. And these protected places as the departmental museums. All shaken up. All we know is, where what is not. And when not. And what the Bolsheviks, and that under Communism, and that under Yeltsin. And for each of his grandfather's explanation of the fact of writing to the competent organy.Posmotrite figures and chill.
A kind of vulgarity, God forgive me, there is this concern for "National Treasure."

Seema, with you like a brick wall! How happy should be your loved ones! :-)

Seriy, close, I hope, appreciate. But the museum pictures stored exactly valued: drag once the yard Golovin for shooting in another building (cardboard meter, subframe, frame Soviet wood, glass or three), and the van drove me backwards. And I'm saving your "nat. Hon." climbed with Golovin this (recall-glass three-piece, frame, etc.), holding it in his outstretched hands on the snow. Van has already been passed by and all were rescued, but then he opened the back door and lock hooked my coat. So he went away (not far, though). I, however, stood like a wall. (half coat).