A fire in the center of Moscow Grabar

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20 July 2010 14:44

Restorers will be the restoration

Building restoration center it. Grabar after a fire in need of major repairs. Its value, as well as the total amount of damage by fire, will be named later

Moscow. July 20. INTERFAX.RU - Research and Restoration Center them. Grabar, suffered during a severe fire, in need of major repairs. In addition, employees need new equipment to replace destroyed by fire. On the lost works of art we still do not even go: not all salvaged exhibits identified.


Recall, a fire in the center of them. Grabar occurred last Thursday. According to preliminary version, the cause of ignition was used a blow torch while repairing the roof. Because established in the heat the fire quickly spread through the building, covering an area up to 2 thousand square meters. meters. During the fight the fire killed two rescue workers.


The fire was extinguished about 30 barrels and four helicopters dropped burning buildings, a total of 530 tonnes of water. Before the works of art were in the special bunker, the water did not reach, says management center T specialists, but suffered many works that were in the department of examination and on the tables at the restorers.


As a result, the center of the building needs major repairs and now can not be used, say in the Ministry of Culture. "Without a serious overhaul the building can not be subject to exploitation", - said on Tuesday, Interfax press secretary Minister Natalia Uvarova. According to her, the building is badly damaged. Moreover, in the center was unique equipment and specialists to assess the extent of his injuries. The amount required for the restoration of the building, maintenance and new equipment is not yet known. Also, experts can not yet calculate the damage fund works of art. Rate holds a special commission, established under the Ministry of Culture. It was headed by Deputy Minister Pavel Khoroshilov. On the first results of its work will be announced early next week.


It is known that at the time of the fire in the building were about 1,5 thousand works of art - paintings, sculptures and carpets. To date, they are all removed, and specialists spend their reconciliation with the available documents. According to center director Aleksey Vladimirov, to varying degrees, affected almost all the work is on restoration. It is about 20%of all items in the building. Most of them - from the collections of regional museums and private collections.


A number of valuable works, or was injured, or suffered slightly. In particular, it concerns the exhibits from the Pskov and Novgorod conservation areas. "The fate of exhibits from the Pskov museum-reserve is not yet known, but according to unofficial information, Pskov icons are not affected", - told a museum director Yuri Kiselev. The center is named after Grabar about 40 items from the collection of the Pskov museum-preserve: the unique ancient Russian icons XV-XVII centuries, the Shroud of XVI century, which, according to other sources, yet suffered, but to be restored. In the Novgorod Museum Reserve reported that the six items from their collections and have not suffered from fire, since it is not on the restoration, but in the repository. But the picture of George Dow Alexander I on horseback from the Armoury, found "is on the restoration, found" fragmented "." We found pieces of "Alexander I on horseback, by George Dawe. His restored ", - Vladimir Interfax yesterday. Also among the injured, but subject to the restoration of works of art - an icon of" The Life of Stephen of Perm "from Syktyvkar end of the XVII century, the time of Peter the banner of Pereslavl-Zaleski, Russian XIX century carpet from Muranovo.

/Interfax /

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