How much does the library Schneerson?

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This year's exhibition in the United States are not in the program of paintings from Russian museums. Not to provide work for American projects to domestic museums strongly recommended that the Minister of Culture Avdeev: after a U.S. court ordered Russia to return the "Schneerson Library" American Hasidim, any Russian cultural values ​​may be withheld in the United States for the purpose of exchange. Magazine Citizen K calculated how many Russian paintings Americans would retain to offset the cost of "library Schneerson.
"Schneerson Library" consists of 12 thousand books and 25 thousand manuscripts. In 2010, Sotheby's sold the most significant of the private library of Jewish books in the world (13 thousand books and manuscripts), collected by diamond magnate David Stern. The auction was closed, according to rumors - the price did not exceed $ 25 million, this amount was taken as the estimated value of "library Schneerson. In assessing the paintings also used an analog method. The cost of painting is made up of sales history paintings by the artist and the emotional component. For example: over the past 20 years has sold about 200 paintings by Ilya Repin, the average price over the past five years - $ 1 million, however, when it comes to national symbols, as in the case painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581, value usually increases about 20 times.
"Kommersant-Online", 04.04.2011
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