Among them is the painting "Ai-Petri. Crimea", which was stolen and then returned to the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery.
More than a hundred artworks by Arkhip Kuindzhi, which were provided by the State Russian Museum for the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, will be delivered back to St. Petersburg by the beginning of March. The painting "Ai-Petri. Crimea", which was stolen and then returned to the exhibition, will be transported along with the other works from the collection of the Russian Museum.
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Arkhip Kuindzhi exhibition was held at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow from October 6, 2018, to February 17, 2019. It presented more than 180 selected paintings by the artist from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, 19 major regional collections, as well as museums of Azerbaijan, Belarus and from a private collection.
On January 27, the painting “Ai-Petri. Crimea” was stolen from the exposition but next morning the suspect was caught and the painting was found.
Author: Vera Ivanova