Scoop: Cheburashka and the company for 1.5 million

[Пелагея Ларина]

December 11 at the auction "scoop" will expose a set of dolls from the famous Soviet cartoon - Cheburashka, Crocodile Gena, an old woman and rat Shapoklyak Lariska.
The starting price of the lot 1500 000r.
 Apparently brewing scandal ... >
The State Duma issued a request to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medina. To prohibit the auction house dolls famous Soviet cartoon.
Parliament is a concern that the display in the free sale of toys, foreigners can buy, and our country forever deprived of the cultural heritage.
Today correspondents "TV Center" visited the auction house "scoop" ... The story was shown on TV.

Today in Moscow, opened the pre-auction exhibition of Russian and Soviet art XX-th century. This would not be surprising if it were not for the top prize. First for trading cartoon characters - Cheburashka, Crocodile Gena and Shapoklyak with rat Larissa. The creators of the auction does not know the name of the seller - the unknown. The starting price is calculated in the millions. Our correspondent Olga Strel'tsova seemed suspicious, not only the history of the auction, but also the Cheburashka.
 
Olga Streltsov, correspondent:
- The fate of Cheburashka and his friends came the dramatic moment. After decades of fame, people's love and admiration they have lots. And December 11, will leave. With a hammer.
 
Among the hundreds of paintings era of social realism tiny dolls look lonely. Though really - it is their hope to sell at a fabulous price.
 
Karina Borisenok, representative of the auction house:
- Starting price - 1.5 million rubles.
- For All?
- For the whole kit. The only surviving original set of dolls of 1971.
 
Author of books about Cheburashka - Eduard Uspensky - Auction not warned. The writer is sure that the price is clearly undervalued.
 
Eduard Uspensky, writer:

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- These dolls should be in a museum. And just - under armored caps, because these toys are millions of dollars.
 
In the museum of dolls really - hardly take. They are already there.
 
Stanislav Sokolov, artistic director of the studio "Soyuzmultfilm":
- The real doll is here. Hammered nails. And do not disappear.
 
Cheburashka from the museum studio "Soyuzmultfilm" is very different from what is put up for auction. Here he is on the screen - in the movie 1971 release. But the top lot. Find the 10 differences can even baby. Questionable and information in the catalog: This is not the world's only complete set of dolls of the time. Some cheburashek at least a dozen. For each of the 4 series created several dolls. According to the experts, put up for auction the characters could easily ordered for himself the director.
 
Stanislav Sokolov, artistic director of the studio "Soyuzmultfilm":
- Do Aronovich Leonid Shvartsman Cheburashka Doll House is that he made especially for you.
 
In Leonid Shvartsman Cheburashka house really is - and the doll and sketches for her. Artist have not interviewed - tired of the scandals shaking his heroes.
 
Garri Bardin, director-animator:
- If the auction this elderly artist perepadet something, thank God. You shake your head. Means nothing perepadet.
- He does not even know.
- I do not know. So, all this is unconscionable.
 
Our observation of apparent dissimilarity top lot with a doll from the film of 1971, the auction house referred to a telephone conversation with his son directed Kachanov. Like, Cheburashka in years just "faded away." And the fate of the dolls also have traced the phone. Examining nobody spent.

Karina Borisenok, representative of the auction house:
- So we told the owner - which they were presented. The director has died, but his family was told that the information is credible. No further examination is required in this case.
 
Auction sparked an international outcry. Many calls come from Japan. There Cheburashka - a hero. If you will buy the Japanese - he might still have some work. At home not to shoot - is tender.

Olga Streltsov, Marina Tumanov Natalia Ermak. "TV Center". Moscow