The painting, which may well belong to the hand of the famous artist Konstantin Korovin, fell prey to drug addicts on Thursday in the west of the capital was attacked by robbers on the 68-year-old car restorer and took the canvas with a spare tire from the trunk.
According to the "MK" ATS chief operations officer of the district Kuntsevo Sergei Solovyov, thieves tracked down the car specialist in the restoration of masterpieces in the guerrilla street. Two assailants jumped into an old saloon, Ford Focus, when the restorer braked at a traffic light. The robbers had behaved poorly and apparently were similar to drug addicts. One of the villains put a gun to the driver's neck, while his accomplice chained hand men with plastic clamps to the steering wheel. Then they disembowelled trunk in search of something more or less valuable. Swag was a spare wheel and parcel with the cloth. As later told the police restorer, landscape unframed in a terrible state before he transferred to the restoration client. The lady who lives in St. Petersburg, came upon a picture, going through trash in the attic of a country house, which was inherited from his recently deceased mother. Suspecting that the find may represent a considerable value, the heiress had decided to restore it.
In the police believe that criminals are looking for in the car primarily spare tire and at the same time picked up a sheet. Mugged Restorer alleges that the oil painting size
45 to 55 cm with a strained one side edge is a landscape of central Russia and may be the work of renowned artist Konstantin Korovin. If so, even in such a fabric is not less than 20 thousand dollars, and after the restoration of the price will increase many times.
Possible photo pictures taken from MC
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