The Hermitage announced the return of paintings detained in

Finland

The Hermitage paintings, which were detained by the Finnish customs service, returned to RUSSIA, the museum's press service reported on TELEGRAM.

“Exhibits of the State Hermitage that participated in the exhibition “Grand Tour. A Dream of Italy from Venice to Pompeii”, organized by the Hermitage’s permanent partner, the Italian Galleries in Milan. Among them are the works of Antonio Canova, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Vigée Lebrun, the painting The Tolstoy Family in Venice by Giulio Carlini.

The press service of the museum noted that the ban on the EXPORT of paintings was lifted after clarifying that "exhibition exchanges have a special status even under sanctions restrictions."

On the evening of April 9, the Federal Customs Service reported that three cars with canvases from Russian museums had crossed the Russian-Finnish border.

Shvydkoi announced the detention of paintings from Russian museums in Finland Politics

On April 4, Special Representative of the President for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi announced the detention of paintings from Russian museums in Finland. He explained that the exhibits were stuck at customs, since this is the place where the border between Russia and the EU passes, and the problem with the return of works of art is associated with bureaucratic procedures.

On the same day, Finnish Customs confirmed that three shipments of goods “subject to EU sanctions ” were detained at the Vaalimaa checkpoint between April 2 and 4 .

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In addition to paintings from the Hermitage, customs detained exhibits from the Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk and Gatchina museum reserves, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of the East and the Pushkin Museum. They were presented at two exhibitions in Italy (in Milan and Udine) and at the Chiba Museum in Japan.

France will leave two paintings from the collection of the Morozov brothers in the country Society

On April 7, the Russian Foreign Ministry protested to Finnish Ambassador Antti Helanter and said that the return of exhibits should not be subject to restrictions. After that, the Finnish customs officers asked for an explanation from the European Commission about the detention of the paintings. The EC said that the exhibits that participated in European exhibitions do not fall into the sanctions list. Then the Finnish Foreign Ministry allowed the paintings to be returned to Russia.

However, not all exhibits will return to museums, as the French Ministry of Culture decided to leave two paintings from the collection of the Morozov brothers. One of them - "Self-Portrait in Gray" by Pyotr Konchalovsky - belongs to businessman Pyotr Aven, who fell under EU sanctions at the end of February, writes Le Monde. The second painting, according to the newspaper, may be a portrait of Timofey Morozov by Valentin Serov.

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