Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have seized more than 2,000 pieces of artwork from Mariupol. The Mariupol City Council wrote in a Telegram message Thursday that Russian forces have raided the three local museums, since the start of the invasion.
that Russian forces have raided the three local museums, including the Kuindzhi Art Museum, since the start of the invasion.
Among the works taken was the Gospel of 1811 from the Venetian printing house for the Greeks of Mariupol, three works by 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi and others by famed Russian romantic painter Ivan Aivazovsky.
. “When the fighting ended, we went and looked where it was. ... As soon as possible, everything was taken out.”Paintings by Kuindzhi are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
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