MOSCOW: A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a man who snatched a 19th-century painting off the wall in a busy Moscow gallery earlier this year to three years in a maximum security prison.The court in the Russian capital found Denis Chuprikov guilty of theft of valuable items.In January, Chuprikov took the painting off the wall in Moscow’s Tretyakov gallery — home to some of Russia’s most storied art — and strolled out past visitors and security.He took a Crimean landscape by Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi and carried it through a room filled with visitors, CCTV cameras showed.He then drove off …read more
Source:: theSun
