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Russia demands Finland return seized artworks

Arab News 07 Apr 2022
MOSCOW ... “The EU sanctions have not taken into account special circumstances such as these,” he added. Having been on loan from Russian galleries to museums in Italy and Japan, the paintings, statues and antiques were being returned, with head of enforcement Sami Rakshit saying that some of the art came from Saint Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum ... ....
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The Louvre is the most popular European museum on Instagram

Inquirer 29 Oct 2018
... tops a list of the most popular museums in Europe on Instagram, ahead of the Tate Modern in London and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.
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Emperor Constantine's giant finger found in the Louvre

The Art Newspaper 31 May 2018
Benoît Mille, the specialist of ancient metallurgy at the laboratory and Azema's thesis director, resumed the study of the piece for an exhibition on Campana’s collection, which is due to open at the Louvre in November before travelling to the State Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.
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World's Most Beautiful Museums

Huffington Post 01 Oct 2013
... Feast of Saint Nicholas ... Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia ... Including major works of antiquity, the Italian Renaissance, and the Impressionist and Modern periods, this is a must-stop for visitors to Saint Petersburg, whether you're there as a port of call or for a longer stay.
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Baton charge as conductor's sexist comments met with outrage

Canberra Times 02 Sep 2013
Petrenko, who is also the principal guest conductor at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, later sought to clarify his comments, saying in a post on the orchestra's website that he was talking about the situation for ...
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Employee at Russia's Hermitage arrested for stealing exhibits

Yahoo Daily News 26 Aug 2013
Saint Petersburg ... "Several engravings, lithographs, photographs and books dating from the 17th to 19th centuries" and belonging to the Hermitage library were found at the worker's home as well as with a friend of his and at a Saint Petersburg antique shop, FSB said.
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Massive power cut hits Saint Petersburg: official

Breitbart 20 Aug 2010
The Peter and Paul fortress in Saint Petersburg ... A massive power cut hit Russia's second city Saint Petersburg Friday, turning off lights and halting public transport in the city centre, officials said ... The deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg, Alexei Sergeyev, told the RIA Novosti news agency that 40 percent of the city was affected.
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Which international designer said "the sari is sensual"?

DNA India 21 Nov 2009
1. Who among these Hollywood actresses is going to launch her own beauty range? Demi Moore. Michelle Pfeiffer. Helen Hunt. 2 ... Garfield ... Which museum was the first in the world to display a collection of Egyptian antiquities? Louvre in France ... Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg ... .
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Human remains advertised on the Web were written off from museum

Novosti 12 Feb 2007
Petersburg offered to sell "to connoisseurs of Russian antiquity the remains of an Orthodox saint (a skull in good condition and an upper arm bone) that ended up in private hands from the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg in the 1920s." ... Vladislav Kirillov, head of the antiques department in the St.
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St. Petersburg police seize human remains advertised on the Web -1

Novosti 07 Feb 2007
Petersburg confiscated the human remains - a skull and a humerus," said Anatoly Vilkov, deputy head of Russia's culture protection agency ... Petersburg offered to sell "to connoisseurs of Russian antiquity the remains of an Orthodox saint (a skull in good condition and an upper arm bone) that ended up in private hands from the Kazan Cathedral of St.
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Russian Orthodox Church condemns sale of relics on Internet

Novosti 06 Feb 2007
Petersburg, has offered to sell "to connoisseurs of Russian antiquity the remains of an Orthodox saint (a skull in good condition and the bone of upper arm) that ended up in a private collection in the 1920s." ... .
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Exhibit probes the dark world of 'Crime and Punishment'

Deccan Chronicle 16 Feb 2004
Saint Petersburg ... Entering the museum, the visitor is literally immersed in the novel whose full text is plastered over the walls, vying for space with an array of paintings, sketches, documents and antiques from 19th century Saint Petersburg where the story is set ... Petersburg.
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France returns art stolen from Russian Museum 23 years ago

Voila News 30 Sep 2000
MOSCOW (AFP) - - Seven drawings by artist Pavel Filonov, stolen from the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg in 1977 and later bought at an antique shop by the Paris-based Pompidou Centre, ...
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