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Russian loans threatened
Apollo, Jan, 2006
RUSSIAN LOANS THREATENED The Russian government may cancel the loan to foreign museums of all works of art because it fears that they may be seized as part of international disputes. The warning was made by the director of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Mikhail Piotrovsky, following the temporary seizure in Switzerland of paintings from the Pushkin Museum that had been on loan to the Fondation Gionnada, Martigny.
The seizure was initiated by a Swiss company owed money by the Russian state. Britain gives no guarantee against seizure, so worst affected would be the Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House, where the exhibition 'The Road to Byzantium', which will include this fourth-century AD medallion of Emperor Constantine I (left), opens on 30 March. Deborah Swallow, director of the Courtauld institute of Art, which oversees the Hermitage Rooms, said in a statement that Somerset House 'continues to work closely with the Hermitage'; 'however we are aware of the need to provide a guarantee of immunity from seizure for art loaned to UK exhibitions from Russia and discussions are in progress.'
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