Provenance picture. Until 1942 he was in a meeting of the palace Sanssouci in Potsdam. In the list of exported values in the Soviet Union did not appear. In 1945 he was in the house of his mistress propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. In 1945, the house occupies a Soviet commandant of Brandenburg, and later, after the end of his service, as it was then taken, along with the picture of the situation was brought to Russia. For the convenience of carriage cloth was folded several times and as such lay there till our days. The daughter of an officer to sell the painting for 800 dollars. Now the picture is owned by businessman and collector of icons, Vladimir Logvinenko, and to address the issue of the status of pictures placed in the repository ROSIZO.
Assessment paintings. Name a few sums: 95/80 million, 80 million euros. According to experts, the amount is overstated, as the now-antique market there is no rush for Rubens. The painting was offered to the German museums for $ 30 million, according to other sources, for a quarter of the amount of the assessment. To pay for her German side refused.
This scene of rape can be attributed to the strange war booty in 1945. Surprisingly, then in each duffel bag, "Sidor" soldiers and officers who were returning from Germany, was a place for erotic postcards, magazines, albums with nudity, figurines, golyshek etc. It seems already manifested deficits sex in Soviet Russia.
Return to the lessons of the controversy around the "collection" Baldin. Highlight four different positions, four approaches to the problem.
Position of the first, let's call them patriots, clear and understandable. They remember or have heard from the parents of that terrible war: the gallows in almost every village or village, ditches, clogged with corpses, every city and from Moscow to Brest, there is no place where there were no ruins and ashes. " Their position is marked Captions S. Raskin, 1943.: "We will never forget!
Position Second, advocates of universal values, or how they are still referred to as "Westerners", more complicated and difficult. They need to help the German side and persuade the electorate that "by the global rules captured values are subject to the unconditional return" of Germany (like writing one of the Moscow newspapers on April 1 this year). They are intricately transferred to equalize the scourge of war, and our German side, as well as damage caused by our German and cultural values.
That's what writing two ladies of the Komsomol newspaper after a meeting with the second wife of V. Baldin: "After the victory of antique linens and shepherds of the great masters literally filled Moscow's commission store. Baldin friend sold four drawings from the Bremen series in the Pushkin Museum, has received forty thousand rubles, and noted successful deal of joy in Prague. "Why this curious information? Julia Feodorovna Baldin was then in places far from Moscow. Probably the Komsomol and the ladies do not know that in 1945 in Moscow there were only four commission store, where we took antiques, and they physically could not be literally filled with paintings of great masters. "In other" stores random things "traded" trophies "in the current range of Vietnamese and Chinese markets, and antiques can get on their shelves only at the ignorance of a commodity specialist. Restaurant" Prague "was opened ten years after the victory - in 1955, and the Pushkin Museum until 1956 he worked intermittently on the "Stalinist" and "Dresden" exhibition.
Another "Komsomolskaya" lady, holding our own inventory and the German losses, concludes: "Nevertheless, the cultural loss of global significance such as" Sistine Madonna "we have not suffered.
Even if we counted distract from human material losses, the Germans should we still have a scorched earth. The invaders smashed and burned down the historical and cultural layers in the west of Russia "the mainland" as they say archaeologists. Now there remains a city without a past. They are from the past were the old names and the history book without a real environment. It could not be. Of the 1418 days of war on our territory, it was raging 1000 days, and on the German held for 100 days. Modern German historian, wrote that Germany did not pay a tenth of what was happening in the occupied territories.
Position of the German side: "Give, and no nails!" We explain: "In West Germany there is no cultural values of Russia." This is true with a trace of guile. The Germans know where we went and swam away, and German cultural treasures after the war, but whether from a sense of Atlantic solidarity, or for other reasons, hesitate to demand their return. Americans also have been slow to follow the "global rules". But now with a weakened Russia could claim only that the soul desires.
In 1945, Germany was divided into four occupation zones. In the Soviet zone of Germany came third part, the rest was occupied by the Western allies. Germany began the export of material and cultural values in order reparations, seizures, confiscations, as well as individual initiatives. Our soldiers were interested in only "convenience goods": bicycles, radios, cameras ... Enterprising and clever Americans worried "eternal values". Over the ocean sailed most of these eternal values. Enough to look through our newspapers from 1947 to 1950
Position of the ministry's officials: "To give everything, but subject to the visibility - all under the law." To facilitate the transfer of "the Baldin collection to the German side, eccentric V. Baldin designated looter - he de smuggled collection from Germany (it would be better left lists of soldiers on cigarettes or other use of paper, and not give them their rations and chrome officers' boots ).
Officials warmly welcome any humble offerings to the German side, symbolizing that mimic or simulate a counter-process of the return values. Last year, officials in each ministry's statement, "rinsed" chest of drawers and panels from the Tsarskoe Selo palace, supplied to us by the Germans. This enthusiasm for a copy of the Amber Room, paid the German side, it is the turn to enjoy building up the church of the Assumption in Volotovo field near Novgorod. And in August, despite the ridicule the media, Minister of Culture admired second-tier graphics, came from Germany.
The fifth character, the electorate, yet silent. Russian question: "What?" Answer: "Do nothing and wait." In the mid 1950's. U.S. experts examined the question of what to do, that dried up the hatred of Armenians by the Turks for the massacre of 1915-1916 gg. Conclusion scientists - this happens when he dies last witness the carnage. Historical experience has shown that this term is not enough. Shall die, those who heard first hand about those terrible events. We think it will happen by 2020. By this time, come to power another generation, and it decides how to proceed with the trophy property in 1945.
Published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta on 31.10.2003
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