Painting brush Korovin kidnapped in Moscow

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In the west of Moscow from the car restorer stolen paintings by the artist, Konstantin Korovin, said a source in law enforcement bodies of the capital.
"About 10 o'clock at the house number 41 on the street Partisan three gunmen approached the parked car, and Ford, threatening 68-year-old owner of a pistol and a knife, who was kidnapped in the trunk of a picture of artist Konstantin Korovin, and then disappeared", - said the source.
He said that the painting belonged to the Muscovite, who found her in the country, examining things after the death of the mother.
"The canvas is in very bad condition, so experts estimated it at 650 thousand rubles, but if it is restored, and that the woman was going to do, the cost of paintings will increase by several times", - said the source.
In this criminal case on article 162 of the Criminal Code (robbery), which provides up to 15 years imprisonment.

Korovin - a bright representative of Russian impressionism, he is known as a painter and theater artist.
In his role as the artist's performance, he worked at the Bolshoi Theater for almost a quarter century, which has designed more than 50 operas and ballets, including such well-known as "Life for the Tsar, Ruslan and Lyudmila," Sadko, "" The Golden Cockerel, " Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Nutcracker and many others.
He painted landscapes and portraits, including a portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin and Savva Mamontov. At the auctions of auction house Sotheby's in London landscape "Gurzuf summer" was sold for more than 1,9 million dollars, which is 12 times higher than its starting price.

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