New security system of Russian Museum to supply ...

ST. PETERSBURG, October 16. /TAS/. the brand new safety equipment it truly is being developed in the Russian Museum will supply simultaneous commentary over all rooms, Russian Museum Director Vladimir Gusev noted in an interview with TASS forward of the St. Petersburg foreign way of life discussion board.

"We at the moment are receiving cash from the Ministry of way of life as smartly. A methodical middle became created in the Ministry of subculture, and it'll assist the museums’ safety capabilities. we are able to purchase device for video monitoring - we lack cameras. it's, the security gadget should still be multi-stage, and there is figure underway to create circumstance centers as a way to display screen all rooms simultaneously," he observed.

Gusev explained that work to increase protection measures is continually carried out within the museum, however is dependent upon financing. The theft of a portray by using Arkhip Kuindzhi from an exhibition on the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow grew to be the reason behind allocating extra dollars to build up security in museums this year. "When such wonderful situations turn up - just like the theft of Kuindzhi’s painting from an exhibition - attention is drawn to this problem, excessive-degree discussions are held, and monetary receipts grow," the museum’s director mentioned.

He cited that over 30 years throughout which he headed the Russian Museum there were no gigantic thefts of displays. Gusev reiterated that essentially the most vociferous case changed into an try to steal Vasily Perov’s painting "Solitary Guitarist" in April 1999, however it changed into successfully returned.

In January 2019, Kuindzhi’s portray "Ai-Petri. Crimea," that had been introduced from the Russian Museum, changed into stolen from an exhibition on the Tretyakov Gallery. Denis Chuprikov turned into found guilty. He took the painting from a wall in a Tretyakov Gallery corridor, eliminated the body in the back of the demonstration stand, left the constructing and disappeared. day after today Chuprikov became detained within the village of Zarechye, Moscow location. Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky court sentenced him to three years in a colony. law enforcement officials found the painting on the web page of a facility beneath development in the Odintsovo district and gave it to the Ministry of way of life. The work changed into then back to the Russian Museum.