STOLEN ART. Episode 5. MARIUPOL MASTERPIECES

On 21 March 2022, a Russian aviation bomb hit the building of Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol. Fortunately, it was not completely destroyed.

Still, the fate of a part of museum collection, in particular paintings by such well-known Ukrainian artists as Mykola Hlushchenko, Tetyana Yablonska and Mykhaylo Deregus, is presently unknown; there is a probability they could have been burned.

But what fire and explosives had not destroyed was stolen by occupiers. Even more! Director of Mariupol Museum of Local Lore personally handed to the so-called “Russian experts” several true masterpieces hid by museum employees in the beginning of the Russian invasion.

Among those there were paintings by a well-known landscape artist Mykola Dubovsky “The Sea” and “A Night on the Baltic Sea” as well as unique icons of the late 19th century.

In general, we know about 2,000 unique museum exhibits stolen by Russians and transferred to the museum of local lore in occupied Donetsk.

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