Archives and books on Soviet-era art sell-offs allegedly seized from Hermitage

A curator at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg has claimed that government authorities have seized archives and books at the institutions shops related to the Soviets sale of art nationalised after the Bolshevik Revolution to Western collectors, sparking fears of an attempt to rewrite the countrys history. The museum, however, has denied an official ban of the material, saying that work is being done to improve how the archives are stored.
Last Thursday, 13 April, Alexey Larionov