In Tchistopol, Republic of Tatarstan, has experienced major art robbery.

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In Tchistopol, Republic of Tatarstan, has experienced major art robbery. In the period from 13 to 14 August, unknown entered the building Chistopol museum district of the city, where the stolen painting "Portrait of the child", the brush Swedish artist Alexander Roslin (1718-1793). The preliminary cost of this canvas of about 200 000.

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For unknown reasons, the fact of the theft became known only on 19 August. Began soon after the investigation has not yielded any results. As it became known, in the near future stolen work will be entered in the search database of Interpol.

Famed Swedish portrait painter Alexander Roslin spent two years in St. Petersburg as a court painter. His hand belongs to the set of grand portraits of the Empress Catherine II, her son, the future Emperor Paul I, the courtiers and the Russian nobility. In total, he has created about 100 works, many of which are stored in the largest museums in the country.

For a long time, "Portrait of the child belonged to the state museum of Tatarstan. In 1939 the painting was brought to the exhibition in the city Tchistopol, where he was kept in the collections of the local museum until the recent incident.
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