Indian investigators want to investigate the theft of paintings in London Roerich

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Indian investigators want to investigate the theft of paintings in London Roerich

NEW DELHI, January 18 - RIA Novosti, Yevgeny Pakhomov. The Court of the Indian capital New Delhi addressed to London to allow Indian investigators to conduct investigations of theft in the UK from Indian Institute of paintings by Russian artist Nicholas Roerich, said on Wednesday news agency IANS.

Pictures of "Himalayas, Kanchenjunga" and "Sunset, Kashmir" were among the 13 works donated by the Roerich Indian Agricultural Research Institute. The institute loss patterns observed only when these works were exhibited in 2011 at an auction in London for two million dollars. India now insists on the return of stolen paintings.

Chief Justice Vinod Yadav, Delhi (Vinod Yadav) on Tuesday sent a judicial inquiry into the British Ministry of Internal Affairs to conduct investigations staff of the Central Bureau of Investigation of India in the UK. Indian police ascertain the circumstances of the kidnapping of two paintings by Russian artist Nicholas Roerich, who had been illegally exported from India to London and put up for auction.

The artist, philosopher and researcher Nicholas Roerich - the founder of the dynasty of the Roerich. He created about seven thousand pictures, many of which are known galleries in the world, wrote about 30 literary works, including "Altai - the Himalayas: Travel diary," "East - West" and "Heart of Asia". Nicholas Roerich is the author of the Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments. His wife, Helena Roerich, was widely known as the creator of a philosophical system "Living Ethics". Their son George was a distinguished scholar of Asia, has written many volumes of the Tibetan-English-Russian-Sanskrit dictionary. The second son, Svetoslav Roerich, known as an outstanding artist and social activist in India.

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