Stolen from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg found a brooch store

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In St. Petersburg, found jewelry, missing several years earlier from the Hermitage. As reported on Friday, September 18, Interfax reports with reference to the UPC RF, investigators have found a gold brooch with a sapphire and four diamonds.
Decoration was sold to an antique shop, Antique. Art criticism examination confirmed that this brooch, was stolen from the Hermitage Fund jewelry.
The disappearance of a large number of exhibits from the Hermitage was discovered in July 2006. Then it became clear that from the fund's lost 226 objects, including icons, jewelry, tableware of precious metals. A small portion of the stolen found. At the March 2009 list of wanted items listed as item 191.
For involvement in the theft so far convicted one person, the husband of the former keepers of the Fund "Russian Art" Nikolai Zavadsky (herself a keeper, died in 2005). In 2007, he received five years.
The investigation into the theft of exhibits primarily engaged management UPC RF.
(Lenta.ru)