Rosokhrankultura returned to the museum stolen Rodchenko poster

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Rosokhrankultura returned to the museum kidnapped poster Rodchenko

10/06/201017: 51

MOSCOW, June 10 - RIA Novosti. Rosokhrankultura returned in the Mayakovsky Museum was abducted from the poster by Alexander Rodchenko "defender of women's labor union.
"It's not just a poster, a mock-up, on the reverse side of which you can see the signature of Mayakovsky and Rodchenko," - said Deputy Rosokhrankultura Viktor Petrakov on Thursday held the ceremony of transferring the Return of Cultural Property to museum managers.
According to museum director Svetlana Strizhnevoy, missing was discovered in 1997.
"In the 1994 poster went to an exhibition in Italy, there are corresponding mark on the customs of its export and import from Russia, but in 1997 it was discovered that a poster in the museum there," - she said.
After 12 years of poster "floated" on the exhibition in London's Tate Modern in May 2009.
According Petrakova, Rosokhrankultura staff had to spend long and hard work to convince the owner, a U.S. citizen, to return stolen goods.
Now back in Rodchenko's work Mayakovsky museum walls and, according to Strizhnevoy, soon will enter the catalog poster graphics, which is being prepared for publication ..
In addition, the Kursk Regional Museum Service gave the treasure of coins, which was discovered in carrying out restoration work on the walls of Rila St. Nicholas Monastery in the Kursk region.
As the representative of Rosokhrankultura, this discovery is very precious - the specialists known to only two such treasures, one of which is located in the State Historical Museum, and the other - in the State Hermitage.
Photo album artist Mstislav Dobuzhinsky was transferred to a collection of the St. Petersburg State Center of Photography, and pocket album of drawings of the artist - in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. Both of the gift made a citizen of the Czech Republic Anastasia Koprshivova, an expert on Russian emigration.
Also, the State Historical Museum was given a book in 1793 "Image uniforms of the Russian Imperial Army," and in the State Pushkin Museum - sketch cover for his book "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish."
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