This story is retold in the book T. Khvostenko with the words of Nikolai Mikhailovich Romadina.
He spoke of a Moscow doctor (name not disclosed), who lived on Kutuzov Avenue. He lived alone, and it was only a housekeeper. After the death of a doctor, died soon after, and housekeeper. She bequeathed all the property of their nephews from Belarus. Came the notary, gathered relatives, entered the apartment and ..
«... and all the dumb: the rooms were stacks of paintings Fedotova, Levitsky, Repin, Surikov, Archaeology, Levitan, Aivazovsky. On the floor were seventeen royal goblets, when the Hermitage of the only two cabinet drawers were packed with miniatures on gold, unique jewelry. There lay the famous Panagia, stolen before the revolution of the Kremlin's Faceted Chamber ....
...-« I was invited to an expert. »[COLOR=Black"](NM Romadin)
- "All these things came to the museum, I guess. (T. Khvostenko)
- No. They plundered everything from Henry's Popova, head of the Ministry of Culture, to the staff of the Department for Cultural Heritage Preservation. And the Panagia came to Brezhnev's daughter, said to her, and began discovery. I bought the "Widow» (we are talking about the sketch for the painting Fedotova "Widow »), Jora Nyssa purchased a small portrait by Levitsky. Some of the works bought by the wife Pokryshkina. Many bought Mochalsky ... And what about the rest I do not know. In general, we, the experts, their mouths gagged. One ring, which belonged to Richelieu, took a woman. She was killed because of him. Since then, and began under Andropov investigation. The doctor seems to have been KGB chief physician, and when he saw the picture, or porcelain, or old gold, the owner planted, but things fell to him. »[/COLOR]
(T. Khvostenko Evenings on Maslovka near the Dynamo)
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