STOLEN ART. Episode 8. THE STEALING STATE

They illegally took out from Ukraine everything they could: Scythian gold, weapons, Cossack regalia, icons, paintings, archives. Today they adorn russian museum collections. These are hundreds of thousands of invaluable artefacts, cynically appropriated by thieves.

Among the most famous is a coil that used to belong to Volodymyr Monomakh – a gold medallion that served him as a talisman, also called “the Chernihiv hryvnya”.

There are also Pereshchepina treasures from the burial of khan Kubrat, the ruler of Great Bulgaria. Now both rarities are in Saint Petersburg.

Among sacral valuables, there is Vyshhorod icon of Holy Mother, a global masterpiece. For some reason Russians decided it was their sacral relic. It is presented in Tretyakov gallery under the title of Volodymyr Holy Mother icon.

Today, just like before, the stealing state tries to appropriate or simply destroy Ukrainian cultural heritage. But now the whole civilized world sees what the so-called “great Russian culture” is really like.

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