Caspar David Friedrich

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perhaps someone heard about the work of German Romanticism in Russia?

[Игорь Гурьев]

Caspar David Friedrich. Crucifixion in the woods.
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This picture with an interesting history.
She belonged to a Russian emigre, who thought it was a copy of the picture, located in a German museum.
My friend Paul M. Tolstoy Miloslavskii (now deceased) decided that it was not a copy and the original and a copy - just in a German museum.

And Pavel expresses his friend's intention to do this picture.

- Do you want to buy it from me for 5,000 francs?

(The amount I do not remember exactly, but was named the sum at that time approximately equal to the monthly salary of, say, a cashier).

Paul M. Tolstoy Miloslavskii was a very decent man and said to him:

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- None. When it turns out that this is a real KJ Frederick, then 55 percent of you, but 45 percent - to me.

The fact that this friend of his came from an ancient Russian family that was friends with Vasily Zhukovsky.
A VA Zhukovsky was personally acquainted with KD Frederick.

Consequently, a copy of it on the idea is unlikely to be able to.

Then there were the boundaries between European countries, and PM Tolstoy, thrusting the picture into chemodancheg, went to the most important expert on KD Frederick, who lived in Germany (previously written off, of course).

And now he comes to his home to the expert.
Shows picture.

Expert KD Frederick shouted:
- Kids!

We entered the children.
- In my apartment for the first time in life is the true picture of KD Friedrich. The children worship the shrine!
Children bowed.

- Children can go.
Children came.

Pavel, seeing this, a lot of surprised and said:
- So you do the same directory is considered that in Augsburg (or where to have forgotten) the original.

- You know, I have not seen your picture, but now I understand that the Museum copy, and you have the original.

Pavel was delighted, but no such luck.
That is, he says:
- Could you give me a certificate that it is a genuine thing, KD Frederick?

- Help? I - a government official, and no reference on its own behalf, I can not give.

- And if I'll pay you money?

- I state official, and no money to take I can not!

Pavel thought a little and said to him:

- When I arrive in Paris, write me a letter that I brought you a picture and you define it, KD Friedrich.

Specialist KD Frederick said:

- A letter I can write.

A letter he wrote, PM sold it in Natsioalnuyu gallery in London, received 15 million francs (if translated into modern euro, there will be no less than 4 euros lemons, I suppose), like 7 of them for himself.

That's the whole story.
The picture means that it was bought from PM Tolstoy Miloslavsky.

By the way, he was a relative of Tolstoy, the author of "Victims of Yalta.

One of the loveliest of the Russian people that I've ever seen.
He said Pavel on ... um ... English, Russian, French as a native, as well as German, Italian, and perhaps even in other languages.