[MSN] Icon from Hermitage art collection found in St. Petersburg

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Icon from Hermitage art collection found in St. Petersburg

ST. PETERSBURG, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - Another item stolen from the 
Hermitage Museum has been found in St. Petersburg, the local police said.

"A silver-framed icon was found at 14.00 Moscow time [10.00 GMT] in a 
luggage locker at the Finlyandsky railway station," a police source 
said, adding that the location had been revealed in an anonymous phone call.

The icon is the 25th recovered item on a list of 221 works of art 
reported stolen from one of the world's richest art collections in the 
world. The theft had been uncovered during a routine check at the end of 
July.

Three people have been charged so far in the Hermitage theft case, 
including the husband and son of an employee of the museum who died last 
year.

The large-scale theft of artwork from the Hermitage and the 
disappearance of a famous architect's drawings, worth several million 
dollars, from a Russian state archive, which had been announced earlier 
in August, prompted President Vladimir Putin to order inventories of 
museum collections nationwide.

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