Very nasty article, obviously custom. There are already appearing on the site under her angry "letters to workers."
I believe that this can not pass. The analogy to 37m a year, may not be too relevant, however, one realizes that right now with anyone you can do anything, would be a top team. Home specificity of the present moment is that, unlike in the past, based on background of such cases almost always are - MONEY.
A tough time right now, the money in one way or another depend on it. Any dealer, especially owning a shop or gallery, is "by definition" is the target for different actions - from naive attempts vtyuhat through primitive falshaka old woman for a few hundred dollars to multi-step combinations that involve a lot of people, often, government officials and respectively, tasks are much more serious. I believe that colleagues may not always have to keep on the same principle as that of another must - in a fight, not looking at first, right or wrong.
By the way, to understand the current role of money in all, I advise you on the same site
www.fontanka.ru dial in search of Tulchin and several articles about the history of Petersburg investigate the murder of a famous antiquarian.
Many people here probably are well aware of Borovkov and know him personally. But to readers of this tree were easier to work out its attitude to the issue, saying that the helper for many years without even listening to offers to buy paintings, always responding to their principled refusal: "No, I buy only books, pictures do not need me. " The only grounds for such a position has been concern about the purity of the collection, because, obviously, that the percentage of dubious authenticity in painting things immeasurably higher. He refused, apparently losing on this one, even from things hundred percent of very good houses. Just unsympathetic to him were all these games with confirmation-examinations, he shied away from them.
And now I want to convince us that this is very poor and not very cautious person, the owner of a unique and measurable collections related to some kind of criminals to those at his request, was stolen from public libraries to tens of thousands of rubles pathetic some books, and even probably in bad form and with library stamps!
Or, perhaps, awoke in him in his old age, "Shura Balaganov syndrome," which, having a fifty thousand, and mechanically put his hand in someone else's pocket for three rubles?
Examples of our businessmen, tycoons, swings and swings in the past now - for the presidency, few people are being taught. The main principle of the existence of rich people - Keep it safe, they forget, and in a strange experience who rarely learns.
Parallel, this would not really justified, because the desire of any collector to show his collection of people is nothing inherently vicious in itself does not contain. There is often not even boasting and vanity and the desire to share their like. However, the experience of others, which is not a sin, and learn a lot here. Back in the 70s, the owners of the things shown in the first exhibition from private collections, following the example of pre-revolutionary and pre-war exposures, naively stated in the catalog their addresses and phone numbers. Probably waiting to see what they sort something will bring on the cheap. Right on this list and robbed them ...
But, to everyone except the lucky ones for whom life - a process (not in the sense of the court), I want it some trace left! That Borovkov recently wrote many articles about his things, arranged the exhibition, said in a memoir genre ...
Everyone who has visited before last, it seems, a Moscow antiques shop, remembered his exhibition in the framework of the interior (not selling exhibition!). The time now is difficult for business, the market is full. Although a truly cool things still offers a bit, not without reason is that now you can buy everything, would be money.
So, a Suprematist tableware and furniture, which are shown at the exhibition Borovkov, can not buy! And if you can not buy, you need to take it away. Or put people in such conditions that it considers it best - sell cheaply. But already in the media, these people are not used to be shy.
In Georgia, many would porasskazat methods by which "collected" his collection of well-known colleague on hobby book Borovkova guard, who retired in the rank of general in the office almost Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. Well, this is true, by the way, since then - in Georgia, not with us ...
I see that some muddled wrote, but I think, for a start is enough. I am sure that at least some benefit in the establishment of truth discussion on this forum can bring. After all, any opinion of competent people, this is evidence!
P.S. If anything, my name - not Borovkov!
Given that the discussion went on at once in some fundamental ways too, I guess. would have been meaning to put it under my message directly to the original article and I would ask the gentlemen moderators to do this.