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Oracle of DelphiLarisa Zavadskaya: Hermitage custodian and thief
January 8th 2007 12:11
It is said that to see the entire Hermitage collection it would take 80 years - one's entire life. That doesn't excuse theft - especially when on a huge scale. Larisa Zavadskaya may not be internationally notorious but more details are emerging about the final years of this middle-aged specialist in enamels at one of the world’s great museums, and the greatest in Russia.
By all appearances a devoted custodian of art for 30 years, she had been the quiet keeper of thousands of artifacts in the museum’s Russian culture department. Anonymous in life—she lived in a communal flat with her family in Saint Petersburg and earned $500 a month—she became notorious after her death last year for her involvement in the ultimate inside job: the theft of 221 treasures from the collection in her care - that's serious
By all appearances a devoted custodian of art for 30 years, she had been the quiet keeper of thousands of artifacts in the museum’s Russian culture department. Anonymous in life—she lived in a communal flat with her family in Saint Petersburg and earned $500 a month—she became notorious after her death last year for her involvement in the ultimate inside job: the theft of 221 treasures from the collection in her care - that's serious
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