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In St. Petersburg, kidnapped six paintings by Ivan Bilibin. Thief savagely cut canvases from their frames in the apartment distant relatives of the artist. Attackers have already tried to take possession of rarities in early January during a raid hit a neighbor of the victims. Then the police have not seen in the antique background. May now have to look operatives landscapes of the famous painter in the capital.

Since early 2013, the police were frequent visitors at the famous House of Political Prisoners at Trinity Square. January 6 unknown assailants beat brownie Council Secretary Alexander Kotlyar. The crime was unusual: the victim was caught on the landing, when he came out for a smoke. Two men eastern appearance demanded of him the keys to a neighbor's apartment. When the noise got his wife, both of them pushed into the corridor, where the beat and gone, nothing stolen.

As told to "Fontanka" one of the occupants of the house, then the attack related to the conflict, which broke out between the tenants and some entrepreneur who plans to open a restaurant in the building. Ethnicity businessman together with the appearance of the attackers perfectly fit into a version of "conflict of interest". Tenants of the house plastered with ads request to report to the police any suspicious citizens. Treatment decorated eloquent portrait beaten. Despite this, a new voyage of criminals go unnoticed.

January 19, police received a report of theft in the house of one on Trinity Square. Unknown broke down the door in an apartment and stole six cloths brush famous Russian artist - Ivan Bilibin. It was found that the living space remained unattended with 6 (the same day that beat Kotlyar) on January 19. Offender acted savagely: cut out pictures from their frames. Instrument of crime - a knife - he threw in the flat.

According to "Fontanka", 90-year-old victim is known in the antique world. She was a distant relative Bilibin. Not surprisingly, she had pictures and items belonging to the painter. Relatives of the victim told police that in 2012 it came to a few people, it seems antique dealers, and is now interested in stolen paintings.

The "antique" cupola department also knew about the collection of the House of Political Prisoners. Operatives complain that their colleagues not promptly informed them about the strange attack on the Secretary of the Board of brownie. Then the theft could have been prevented.

Head of the 9th ("antique") department UURa Vladislav Kirrillov in a conversation with a reporter "Fontanka" noted that attackers may try to sell the stolen paintings in the capital. «We know that in recent customers for creativity Bilibin were high officials in Moscow », - he explained.

For theft is a criminal case. Experts are currently set value of stolen.

Timur Zainullin
http://www.fontanka.ru/2013/01/21/102/

Note here without officials not done.