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| A lithograph by Leo Tolstoy''s great-grandson was smuggled onto a Japanese ship. |
| 2025-11-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] . A painting by Soviet artist Oleg Tolstoy, the great-grandson of writer Leo Tolstoy, was seized on a ship arriving in Vladivostok from the Japanese port of Toyama. The Federal Customs Service reported this on Thursday, November 6. Customs officers discovered the artwork during a ship inspection. The lithograph, "Moscow Kremlin," dated 1960, was in the cabin of a crew member. The man explained that he had received it from a stranger in Japan and intended to give it to another unknown person in Vladivostok. "Since the goods were imported without declaration and were not intended for personal use, an administrative offence case was opened against the offender under Part 1 of Article 16.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (failure to declare goods), and the lithograph was confiscated and sent for examination to determine its artistic and historical value," the press service said in a statement. The study confirmed that "The Moscow Kremlin" is a cultural treasure. The lithograph was confiscated by court order and became state property. Oleg Tolstoy was born in 1927 in Yugoslavia and studied icon painting from an early age. He moved to Russia in 1945. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts and the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute. His mentors were Alexander Deineka and Pavel Skolov-Skalya. He participated in Moscow, All-Union, and international exhibitions. He died in 1992 in Moscow. |
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