A painting by a descendant of Leo Tolstoy was confiscated by Vladivostok customs officers

The painting by the painter Oleg Tolstoy was confiscated by Vladivostok customs officers. This was reported on November 6 in the Telegram channel of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia.

"The painting was in the cabin of one of the ship's crew members. He explained that the work of art was given to him by a stranger at the port for subsequent transfer to another unknown person in Vladivostok," the message says.

According to the published information, the undeclared cultural value was discovered during the inspection of a ship arriving from the port of Toyama (Japan). As a result of the inspection, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Article 16.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation ("Non-declaration of goods").

Following this, the painting was sent for examination to establish artistic and historical value, after which it turned out that the work is a lithograph "Moscow Kremlin", painted in 1960, and belongs to cultural value. In accordance with the court's decision, the painting was confiscated and turned into state property.

Earlier, on August 21, the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that during excavations in Veliky Novgorod, archaeologists discovered a lead seal from the reign of Prince Yaroslav the Wise. It is noted that the find was attributed to the period after 1019. According to the institute, six more similar seals have been found on the territory of Ukraine over the past 20 years.

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