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Staff at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg were involved in the theft of over 220 pieces of art, valued at over $5 million. UPDATE: Now it’s being reported that the stolen art is valued at over 130 million!
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August 4th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Oh dear… all that history, could be lost. Forever. Hopefully they will get to the bottom of this and retrieve all of the missing artifacts. And as far as the “sudden” death of the curator, as he began inventory? I highly doubt it was a sudden death…