On the eve of the revolution, ivan grinev rolls up paintings from his collection and hides them in a hiding place. A twelveroom apartment in an Apartment Building on nikitsky boulevard will be divided into three communal apartments. For many years , completely different people have been living here, with no relationship with family. And here it is, several decades later. The fantastic story takes on an unexpected continuation. Grinevs grandson, the young artist ellie belyutin, returns here with his wife nina moleva. They are seeking permission from the Municipal Council to, through an exchange, regain part of the residential area, which historically belonged to the family. Naturally, the first thing they do when they find themselves in that very apartment is to look for the hiding place that their grandfather mentioned. We took it out from one hiding place between the floors, the difference in ceiling heights, into this gap they were placed on twisted shafts the paintings, canvases were not damaged, they were in perfect condition, a famous moscow art critic, restorer, doctor of historical sciences, she is one of the few specialists who saw the collection live, she was in the apartment on nikitsky boulevard twice in the eighties and in 2007, she completely regretted , because before my eyes he shows me, here is rubin, here is titian, here is vandy, who is leonardo davinci, but since by this time i was already an art critic. Larisa apolonovna carefully in detail i studied the history of the molev belyutin family and more than once drew attention to the fact that many facts from the biography cannot be documented; when you enter the front door, you immediately run into the portrait of this gryanev, yes. Again, the portrait, i say, raises doubts, because it could have been obtained anywhere, that it could have been negrinev, but no one we have any evidence absolutely, you know, no mention of the fact that he was, he served in Imperial Theater, yes, as i understand it, or myself, well, yes, yes, all my colleagues who they are trying to figure out these discrepancies and so on, for example, they write that grinev is not on any lists, yeah. This theater is not visible, after all, the version that grinevs grandfather, who stands at the origins of this collection, is a fictional character, does not seem convincing, especially since nina molevas stories contain so many details from the life of the legendary relative, for example, the story of how as a simple peasant boy, he ended up in the Imperial Theater, went to work as an errand boy in the workshop, which was in charge of the chief artist, performer, he did not have any special education, for example, the lists of those who served in the Imperial Theater simply were not preserved over the years, for example, on one of his trips to western europe, grenev was actually lucky enough to buy a painting by david himself. Which will become the pearl of the collection and its absolutely clear that its from leonardo, but it didnt stand next to it, but that doesnt mean that its a madonna with a book and a child, that. Its generally bullshit, maybe these are some kind of repetitions or some kind of school. Then leonardo. Larisa apolonovna pays attention to draw the landscape that can be seen in the window. Well, if there is an abstract landscape with distances, mountains, generalized there and so on, then here it is played out more specifically, here we have some trees, bushes, houses, there are all kinds of towers from castles and so on. This is not typical for. Yes, yes, out of the entire collection, larisa apolonovna herself was especially interested in vandycks painting, lady with a fan. This is where the lady was hanging with swags when i came here, later, when i appeared, already this there was no picture. And when i was studying, i worked, worked parttime at the arkhangelskaya estate museum, and the collection of her sops was this lady with a fan, and what is this, i saw etupova, yes, which. I collected it somewhere, excuse me, at the end of the 18th19th century, but how did it turn out here, yes, she says, and this is some kind of unfinished sketch and so on, because it was not fully written out, you know, the art critic is convinced , what a sketch for the canvas by vandyck, in fact it is not the most talented copy. Copies have always been made, at all times, starting from in antiquity, you see, they did it all the time. Repetitions, fakes, copies and so on, then this material circulated when some collectors bought it, they might not know that these were fakes, you know, that these were copies, they could sincerely believe that these were genuine ones then things. Here are a few more important touches, without which the portrait of the owner of the collection nina moleva, art critic, historian, actress, writer, wife of the artist eliya belyutin, would have been unfinished, a very multifaceted person, very interesting, certainly talented, you know, who wanted to create her own picture, she created her own model of the world in which she lived, you know, and which she introduced into the historical outline, because for example, she was also a great artist, only her colors were life, yes , yes, she drew, she drew her own. How a certain phenomenon would become the event of this century. Leonardo and velasca find michelangelo and great artists at once. If during her lifetime nina moleva had nevertheless given consent to the examination of the collection, then with with a high degree of probability, the paintings could end up in the workshops and laboratories of the state Research Institute of restoration, we accept, look at the work, first visually determine its prospects, that is, even at the stage of inspection, consultation, we can understand whether it has a chance for further research. Samples that you practically cannot see with your eyes, analytical instruments work on this picture was created and we take such minimal quantities of the test substance, so we in no way we cause damage to paintings, each painting can be represented as a list of chemical elements used in the work, for example, this is what a chemical analysis of the work of a falk looks like there was a fairly stable set of materials that were used from the early middle ages, right up to the 18th century, starting from the 18th century, the palette of artists begins to change, and it changes radically already in the 19th century, heres an interesting fact that it turns out that in central europe, in northern europe, chalk was used as a primer, in the painting schools of Southern Europe plaster was used. Confirmation of authorship. This is already a separate attribution question, when we work, compare with standards, study the manner of execution of the work, characteristic techniques, how he models certain elements of painting, how he applies the stroke, whether he builds the painting layer by layer, how he builds the texture, that is, each artist has his own system letters. In the Kaliningrad Museum of fine arts , one of the largest collections of works by elliy bilyutin was transferred to the museum free of charge after the artists death. Widow. She immediately seemed to me like such a very, very goodnatured person, and such a very Good Relationship took place between us, she immediately told me im looking at you, you are a keeper. Now i ll see what kind of keeper you really are. You see, this is what is bubbling inside you. You see, you cannot give through real pictorial forms, because they do not express your state. The new reality depicted in the paintings of belyutin and other avantgarde artists who were. Presented at the anniversary comrade khrushchev did not like the exhibition of the Moscow Branch of the union of artists in manezh in 1962 , a real scandal broke out, but in the halls they saw such canvases, falks nude work, such a masterpiece can only cause indignation, this is painting, comrades, but i dont understand, comrades, you are the most innovators. Nikita sergeevich quickly moves around the exhibition from painting to painting, and its clear from his facial expression that he is furious. The next moment, he literally starts screaming, what kind of disgrace is this, what is this brainwash . The soviet people dont need this, ban it, ban everything. And he has these deformed bodies, all these bodies from. You like the west, please, this, please, so why, i say, 10 years, and this should be the order, why . Belyotin is completely confused, because everyone around them promised that everything would be wonderful, furtseva came at night, she looked at this exhibition, reacted favorably to it and so on, they. On nikitsky boulevard, they never presented themselves at exhibitions, well it seems to me that this is a very interesting plaza to study, and many interesting things await us ahead. Mikhail efremovich perchenko, director of the moscow auction house, owner of a unique collection of western european paintings up to the 17th century. Polychrome sculpture of antique furniture. His apartment is also a readymade museum. Value, as assessed by the International Confederation of collectors, antique dealers and art dealers. Which is located in london, she included it in the five most famous collections in the world, these are van balens vakanali with a landscape that he wrote jan bregel senior, you call her the best by what criteria, one of the best, here are all the best paintings, what do we take into account, preservation, history, uniqueness, i dont buy at all. But my time is 27, i have 126 of them, the collector has ambitions to have names in the collection of real collectors, there are no more than 15 of them in the world, this is ambition, this is the quality of the collection, quality, she died in the last 2 years. She simply did not let her into her apartment of art critics, and the reason is that she heard about our suspicions, and did not want to be checked, she herself is very weak an art critic, she is a wonderful artist, maybe, well, her biography is known to everyone, but the art critic is very weak, so it was easy to deceive her, but before the examination was carried out. Voiced by skeptics remains only a version, an assumption. In the Kaliningrad Museum, meanwhile, regardless of the results of this examination , they expect that their permanent exhibition will be replenished with specimens from the family collection, around which there are so many legends and secrets. Well, she mentioned that our museum, the Kaliningrad Museum of fine arts arts, it will be good, he was mentioned to her in the will in a special way, but she never deciphered what it means in a special way, no one knows what to any particular museum, she explained this by the fact that she wants to hope to the last that exactly on niketsky boulevard , it is in this apartment that such a museum of ilya mikhailovich belyutin, this family collection, will be opened. The fact is that art is a very subjective phenomenon and addressed to our inner, spiritual world. Or does it help us become more humane, more meaningful, kinder . Or the numbers 2 billion appear, my god, whats not worth it, you can print them on a machine, but no one will repeat this picture. Hello, i am boris sakimov, and i am oleg stepanov, and we, the creators of the russia 2062 project of the headquarters of free thought. Together with experts , we are discussing how we can develop the russia of the future in the next 40 years. See you in the future. Fire detector. Safety starts with you, Russian Emergency situations ministry. This is russia 24 and we continue to talk about the main thing for today. Vladimir putin instructed the head of the ministry of emergency situations, alexander kurenkov, to urgently fly to the orenburg region, where there are thousands of people. Let me remind you that it has already burst in three places, water from the ural river has reached several microdistricts on sunday night and may reach a critical level, the Governors Press service stated. 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