whodunnit?: Another museum in the frame as works go missing

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Another museum in the frame as works go missing
From Jeremy Page in Moscow

DRAWINGS worth several million pounds have been stolen from the Russian 
State Archive of Literature and Art in the second big art robbery in the 
country to come to light in as many weeks.

Lax security at museums was already under scrutiny after it emerged last 
week that more than 220 artefacts worth $5 million (£2.6 million) had 
been stolen from the State Hermitage in St Petersburg. Now the archive 
says that it is missing a large number of drawings by the architect 
Yakov Chernikhov, a leading light in the Constructivist movement of the 
1930s.

Among the stolen works were his trademark sketches of futuristic designs 
for public buildings, which never found favour with Soviet officials but 
which are still studied by architecture students. Archive officials 
became aware of the thefts while carrying out an inventory after nine 
missing drawings were sold at auction by Christie’s in London on June 22.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2304553,00.html

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(image) Tower of the 'Red Carnation' factory, St. Petersburg, designed 
by Chernikhov.

[[ pretty drawings, worth millions, but in reality ]]
[[ they look like this ... ]]