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Known picture Kuindzhi, stolen in front of visitors, found. VIDEO

Police detained the suspect in the abduction of the painting by Arkhip Kuinji from the Tretyakov Gallery, the canvas itself was found in the Moscow region.

According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, the suspect, a 31-year-old man whose name has not been released, was detained in the village of Zarechye, Moscow Region.

He said that he had hidden the stolen painting on the territory of a facility under construction in the Odintsovo district near Moscow, where the police found it.

“According to preliminary data, the crime was committed for mercenary reasons,” Volk said in a statement.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the suspect had previously been in a criminal case on drug possession and was under house arrest at the time of his arrest.

In a video released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the suspect says that he did not commit a crime. “I don't commit crimes. I am a law-abiding citizen of Russia,” he says.

When asked what he was doing on January 27, when the painting was stolen, the man replies: “I don’t remember well. We need to refresh our memory."

According to an Interfax agency source, a detained man is planned to be checked for sanity.

The press service of the museum told Interfax that there was no visible damage in the picture found.

What happened?

Painting by Kuindzhi “Ai-Petri. Crimea" was stolen on the eve of the engineering building of the Tretyakov Gallery.

Arkhip Kuindzhi's painting Ai-Petri. Crimea »Photo: Wikipedia, public domain

As eyewitnesses said, the unknown person did this in front of numerous visitors. “The man, who was mistaken for a museum employee, calmly approached the Kuindzhi painting, took it out of the frame and left,” said an Interfax source.

According to eyewitnesses, a sketch of the suspect was compiled: a thin man under 35 years old, about 172 cm tall, with short brown hair, dressed in a dark blue turtleneck and jeans. Media reported that he could have escaped in a white Mercedes SUV.

The TASS agency, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reported that the police initially arrived at the Tretyakov Gallery in response to a call about the theft of a fur coat from a wardrobe, and then, watching the video from the cameras, they saw how “unknown people removed a Kuindzhi painting from the wall.”

In connection with the theft of the painting, a criminal case was opened under the article “Theft of objects of special value.”

Work Kuindzhi attracted kidnappers earlier. So, from the Chelyabinsk gallery the “Ruins in the steppe” and “At sunset” written by him were stolen, and the etude “Dnepr” disappeared from Vologda.

The exhibition “Arkhip Kuindzhi” at the Tretyakov Gallery runs from October 6, 2018 to February 17, 2019. It presents more than 180 works by the artist from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum, works from 19 major regional collections, foreign museums and one private collection.

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