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Today in Malmö from 90 paintings were exhibited in 1914, remained around 40, with 26 of them hidden by the directorate of the museum to the store and not exposed (Valentin Serov, Martiros Sarian, Alexander Golovin and others .) because of fear that their return would require the descendants of artists or the Ministry of Culture of Russia for their attorney. There is a catalog of the Baltic Exhibition 1914, which lists all works of art from Russia (with the Catalog can be viewed at the Department of Conservation of Cultural Property of the Ministry of Culture of Russia). (c)

Sweden will not return Russia pictures
According to the management of the Museum of Fine Arts Swedish city of Malmo, Russia can not demand the return of the paintings that remained here after the exhibition in 1914. "Location of works of art is not determined by the boundaries of countries" - said the museum director Göran Christenson in an interview on Swedish television.

It is about 50 paintings have been exhibited in the museum at the "Baltic Exhibition" at the beginning of last century. Their cost is estimated at tens of millions of euros. When the First World War, and then there was a revolution, the paintings remained in Sweden. In the future, many of the paintings have disappeared. Currently, according to curators remained only 6-7 pictures that are stored in compressed form.

One of the works presented at the exhibition - painting "Bathing the Red Horse" Petrov-Vodkin - yet returned to their homeland. For participation in the exhibition was a painter from the Swedish King Gustav V medal and diploma. Painting a long time remained in Sweden, then to the widow of the artist painting came into the collection known Leningrad Collector Worlds Konstantinovny Bacevich, who in 1961 gave her a gift to the Tretyakov Gallery.

Return the pictures stored in Malmo, trying initiative group acting on the request of the Russian Museum. "If Russia really wants to get back the picture, then the discussion should take place at the governmental level, - said director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Göran Christenson. - We are talking about very large sums, and I am skeptical about the initiative of individuals in such matters. "
http://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2006/03/30/n_574473.shtml

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If Russia really wants to get back the picture, then the discussion should take place at the governmental level.

What goes on the governmental level has been no discussion on this issue?
Why return the paintings stored in Malmo, trying to initiative group, acting at the request of the Russian Museum "?
What kind of "action groups"? Public figures? ZhEKovskie activists pensioners?