Religious Icon Stolen From Russia's Hermitage Museum Is Recovered
Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter Moscow, Russia (AHN) - One of 221 items stolen from Russia's State Hermitage Museum is found in a trash bin in St. Petersburg. The religious icon is a wooden carving of saints gathered around the Virgin Mary. Russian media reports an anonymous caller told security officials the icon was stashed in the garbage near the police office investigating the Hermitage thefts. St. Petersburg police spokesman Valery Vekhov tells NTV, "We carefully removed the bag, looked into it and indeed found an icon... The icon was in a good condition, albeit slightly disassembled." The Hermitage Web site identifies the icon as "The Assembly of All Saints." It was stolen along with medieval and 19th-century Russian jewelry, silverware and enameled objects. The items are worth more than $5 million. A routine inventory that went from October 2005 to July revealed the items had been stolen.
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