Yu.P.Annenkov, "Portrait of D.Yu.Gessena"

[khmelev]

I unfortunately still can not connect to my English friends , with whom , as I recall, we discussed this once - the first - thing. He is resting somewhere . He told me then and provenance , but I forgot . I only know that the picture was first in the Baltics in the early '90s , and from there along with all the Baltic states are already in the EU. She came from Moscow , and also featured some of the relatives of Hesse.
Could it be that the owners agreed to sell the item , subject to making copies of them - that the room was all the same. This sometimes happens . And then many years later the heirs of persistently trying to sell this copy , being piously believe that anything will never budge. Commonplace , in fact , the history ...