A fire in the center of Moscow Grabar

[John Preston]

Dear Konstantin, I am today or Monday would include a few works for examination. Thank God, we missed.
I feel sorry for other owners of works ...

Dear Tjutchev, but there is now a real alternative to the Moscow Centre academician Grabar? "Artkonsalting" do not think, because their services are very expensive, examination may be conducted on anything, just to pay, as a result of attributsii artists - nil ...

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Since the fire at the Center Grabar special vehicles exportation

Treasures evacuated from burning buildings Grabar Restoration Center on Radio Street, the scene take out two cars of special transportation, said spokeswoman Natalia Uvarova Ministry of Culture.
According to her, all the works of art they will not fit right, the cars will come a few times. "Now take out more than 50 items and several boxes with graphics", - said Uvarov.
She added that "the evacuation of the art fire was most carefully, but the extent of damage is currently impossible to determine." The exact composition and quantity of property is unknown, but employees of the center say that among them there are not only paintings, but also icons from china.
For its part, is one of the MOE staff working on the fire, reported that on the third floor of the building left a lot of icons, and their fate, most likely, has been disappointing.
Rescued from the fire works of art temporarily accommodated in storage Ministry of Culture, as well as in Rublev Museum and Research Memorial Museum of Zhukovsky, near Center Grabar.

http://gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2010/07/15/n_1520887.shtml

People feel sorry for ..
and how much work could not be saved

[Тютчев]

The Art of the victims required

When extinguishing restoration center killed two firefighters

old truth - where hot, there's fire - was a grim confirmation in the heart of Moscow. On Thursday afternoon broke the old building of the National Centre for Restoration behalf Grabar. Building on fire, like a haystack after a lightning strike - fire raspolzsya to shut down within minutes. Two firefighters were killed. Fire in cultural institutions of the capital in general, are often fatal to the fire chief: for example, a similar emergency in the Manege in spring 2004 took the lives of three ognebortsev. MK discovered the background of the tragedy.

13.31 Personnel Center Grabar in a panic call to "01". Flared up near the ceiling - burned a wooden beam in the Pit Add attic (there is also located Restoration overlap). Why? Basic versions of the two - circuit wiring or spontaneous combustion of bitumen from the heat.

- Repairs on our roof was not exact - assures grabarovtsy. - It's all weather. Because at the time the thermometer plus 35 in the shade.

13.45 Burning all have an attic, the flames creeping in on the second floor. People are able to quickly evacuate, but fire methodically devours the room one after another. The area of the fire is already 1,500 square meters. meter. When extinguishing traditional problem arises - it is impossible to drive right up to the building, everywhere is full of cars.

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14.30 In the course of exploration and fighting inside the building were lost, two rescuers: Vyacheslav Shashin fighters rescue and medical rescue, Alexander Dymchikov of PSO-202. Link of the four men sent to explore, when collapsed structures and two firefighters were covered. Information alarming - in fact exactly the same way in the spring, conducting reconnaissance of the area in the burning business center, killing the chief of fire in Moscow Eugene Chernyshov.

15.00 It confirms the worst fears: fire could not be saved. Further suppression is outside. In place of the fire has left director of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of Russia Ramazan Colo. According to MK in the ministry, the temporary location where will be removed intact fire paintings, already defined.

15.15 The fire is burning already at 2 thousand square meters. meter. Total deployed 45 fire-rescue units, the roof shed water three helicopters. Set in motion even unique for Russia, the system of pumping out smoke from the fire.

The report of the fire were received Thursday at 13.13. Burned two floors of the building and attic. The total area of the fire was 1,5 thousand square meters. m. extinguishing included 20 firefighters and three helicopters calculations. Two rescuers were killed.
  
15.30 The correspondent "MK" watched as the staff of the Centre Grabar with firefighters and police officers were taken out of the burning building through the broken windows of technical documentation, and those works of art that were saved. It tells us, Center on behalf of Maxim, directly next to the flashpoint was the picture of the nineteenth century, depicting Alexander I, a very large size. She was in the room, decorated tree. Other center staff members reported that they managed to save a few boxes with artistic graphics, owned by one of the leading Russian museums.

15.45 The fire is localized. Some paintings were evacuated, but that it was burned down, still unclear. Managed to defend a two-storey annexe to the building and the two lower storeys. But the glass atrium in the attic fell.

WHAT burned

In 1925, building on Radio Street, Building 17, belonged to the Central Research Aerohydrodynamics Institute. Zhukovsky (TsAGI). And in 1920 they occupied the building company ASSC (aviation, seaplanes and Experimental construction). Before the revolution, this place was a tavern "Rusk", which is then demolished. Grabar Center moved to a building № 6 in 2004. Prior to that restorers had rented premises in the Resurrection Church in Kadashi. This led to protests from a group of believers, demanding the transfer of the parish buildings and evict the workshops. The conflict lasted several decades. Thanks to the Federal Agency for Property Management Center Grabar moved into the building on Radio Street, Building 17, Building 6. The body was restored. Other corps at this address owned subsidiary of TsAGI. A part of the premises leased by commercial organizations.

What could burn

Vladimir Sarabianov, art, known restorer:

- Yes, the Grabar Center sophisticated equipment, but this is vospolnimoe. The main thing is there on the restoration of the mass of unique things. As far as I remember, in this building, tempera and oil departments and the department of manuscripts. Many things are waiting for the restoration of the complex, sometimes they lie for 5-10 years. All the most prominent and complicated for a "treatment" of the cultural monuments there. Including works from the Tretyakov Gallery. The loss of such things - an irreparable loss. It remains to pray!

http://www.mk.ru/incident/article/20...lo-zhertv.html