in the theft of Publichki suspected former librarian
Staff 12 th Division of the Office of the CID on Tuesday late in the evening arrested suspects in theft of rare books from St. Petersburg libraries (k of them a detailed account of yesterday). According to detectives, the plans intruders were committing several other thefts of rare books.
According to Kommersant's sources in the Office of Criminal Investigation, the suspects, a former employee of the library Saratov State University Svetlana Danilin, was arrested yesterday at about 21.00 in the train leaves St. Petersburg and Astrakhan. No rarities when it was found. But it was graduate student identity Kurgan University of Natal Queen with perekleennoy photography itself Svetlana Danilina. It is from this document on November 6 members of Russian book collections of the National Library was given the unique monograph Le Future Russian avant-garde turn of the century, Konstantin Bolshakov. The book disappeared. As already reported by Kommersant, the same day from another fund of the same library lost another valuable book, Philosophiae Naturalis principia mathematica Isaac Newton (1687, London). It was issued, is believed by the police, an accomplice Mrs. Danilina, also presented the certificate graduate Kurgan University. Shortly thereafter, it became clear that a similar volume of Newtonian "principles" disappeared from the university library named after Gorky. And from the Library of the Academy of Sciences, as revealed earlier in the week, and stole a rare edition of the English utopian Robert Owen, A new view of Society on Essays on the principle of the formation of the human cgaracter and application of the principle to practice. Law enforcement authorities suspect in all these thefts "Kurgan" trace.
In part, these suspicions have been fulfilled. According to Kommersant sources in the police, at Madame Danilina was removed a list of 16 rare books XVI-XVIII centuries, preserved in various Russian libraries. This gave the investigators reason to assume that the kidnappers carried out the order of a major collector, possibly foreign.
Accomplice Mrs. Danilina, as well as their own curiosities, as of yesterday evening remained unfound. But the head of the 12 th President of the CID Panteleyev told Kommersant: "We are doing everything possible and I think we have a chance in the near future to fully disclose the crimes and return the book in the library."
Andrey Tsyganov
The newspaper "Kommersant-SPB" № 206 (2575) on 14.11.2002
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=567429
Sentenced krimialnym bibliophiles
August 26, 2003, 09:21
Kuibyshev district court of St. Petersburg on Monday announced the sentence against the kidnappers rarities from the Russian National Library. Organizers theft Dmitry Zinchenko and Svetlana Danilina sentenced to 4 years imprisonment with confiscation of property, the serving term of imprisonment, respectively, in a strict and common modes, Interfax reported. Another person involved in the criminal case - Pavel Prokofiev - received 5 years probation.
Stealing from the collection of the National Library first editions of "Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton, first published in London in 1687, as well as publishing works by the Russian futurist Konstantin Bolshakov," Le Future "in 1913 was made on Nov. 6, 2002.
On the theft was prosecuted under article 164 of the Penal Code (theft of items of particular value).
As a result of operational activities of law enforcement officials managed to get on the trail of the kidnappers. On suspicion of committing crimes were arrested three residents of Saratov - 29-year-old Danilin, 32-year-old Zinchenko and 22-year-old Prokofiev, engaged in theft of rare books from libraries in the country for 3 years. Only at the time of their arrest they had seized more than 20 books that were stolen in various Russian libraries.