RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART
SOVIET PROMOTES- SALE,
(Times Cable.) (Received 8140 a.m.) LONDON; October 11.
The Berlin correspondent of the "Times” reports that the sale in Russia of works of art on behalf of the Soviet Trade Delegation will begin on November 6. Altogether 447 vahiable objects ' have ’ been taken from- ’. Leningrad museums 'and castles. The catalogue' .explains that Rusr, sia's public collections have been: so ypriched;/by the confiscatiop ‘. of •: private collections . that, if becomes possible to dispose. of .the V Surplus without appreciably depleting v 'museums aird: galleries. The surplus is so numerous that it is impossible to find accommoc’atii*n, even after utilising the tati) Tsar’s Winter Palace. The objeets. include priceless tapestries, gold ware, furniture, sculptures and paintings, ; - . . 1
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Northern Advocate, 13 October 1928, Page 9
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