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Show 1 SECTION THREE SATURDAY MAY 10 1019 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH 1 TEN PAGES a f 1 ' reasures " Treasures of the Grand Dukes Seized by the Soviets Big Illicit Trade Constantly Going on , I(fflons of Dollar Worth of Picture Stolen Government Establishes Official Robbery Museum ' For There is a Ready Market Abroad For Loot From Russia Reign of Corruptiot-Smaggli- ng Has Given GreatOp pert unity For Art Faker, and Factories Producing uOld Master Have 9 Thieved inland MarketScandinavia F in Bolshevist Minister Attempt to Save What is Left Sprang Up GORKI Gorki Is Aadrtiif AID KIFb HIS Iwalitankr , la XilionUilig Art ' CHUCK ART KLCVDEKEK Leoinr Minister of E8 LuKdnnlqr, ' ottoa Flae n4 Art) ' April 28. Seven -- 107,000,000 roubles go to free instruction in die hundred and fifty million dol- .arts, stipends, competitions, , and so , on. On New lars worth of Russian art treasYears day, 1918, ten scholarships were founded families for young men belonging" ures are in, dawteraud,. if.Ah who prove that they can paint in the most talAllies or Providence do not interBut vene, ifcey will sooner or later be ented revolutionary and proletarian way. lost. The estimate of their value they must be themselves proletarians. In , the palfro Prince D. Golitzyne, an expert, who ace in Vozdvizhenka street in Moscow, which once at merely the contents of the Pet ro grad Her-KaMoroaoff and is pow" a belonged to the cotton-kin- g aad museum of Alexander III; and of the workmans dub, Lunatcharsky thus defined the BolTretiakoff gallery and the Historical and , shevik doctrine: Itmauielf museums. Golitzyne takes no account PAINTED WITH BLOOD. uncounted millions worth of pictures, statues 4 kooks in With sanguinary and predatory 'bourgeois the palaces of the grand dukes, and 4o pest private families, the Youscupoffs, Sehere-tf- f srt we hare nothing to do. Capitalistic pictures are and Stroganoffa painted with proletarian blood, and capitalistic ' Ike statues are carved out of the bones of the poor. danger, he says, is noC in Bolshevism it- The responsible Bolsheviks The capitalist who built this house cemented the though they rob 1 ricks with blood, ' Nor the "proletarian ' is" getting" v&olesale destroy it only when it glorifies the lasoffi or monarchism. The danger comes partly, his Art back' Seire everything. But destroy noth--irAnd he advised the club members to form he hungry mobs and the disorderly Red a committee for more systematic raiding after Art' but most of all from the growing faction 1 Anarchists, who Lave written on their banner in Moscows" rich housesi Next day appeared a Art is a luxury of capitolists; and that the with 'enrolproclamation threatening all citizens y to prevent capitalism reappearing is to ment ip the Red army or with three months com1 all the pictures, statues and imposing pulsory street cleaning if 'they did Pot send in inventories of all art articles they possessed. When dffigs, and to burn all libraries to the ground, fobhcvik Russia the inventories came, all ' pictures and statues professes an enlightened policy wdi art The policy is embodied in Commissary, worth over 1000 roubles were seized and sorted; Education Lunate ha and tbe best 'of them were sent to Petrograd for ruby, who calls himself Tmteetor of Pictures Art Robbery Museum. For the present, ob- the Will and the of by People;" ' M hi side aa advisers Maxim Gorky, the paint- - jects of less value are left to the bereaved Besoi the critic Gorbunoff and some other coro-Ageoisie. . , men. of Education Lunatcharsky, de. Commissary Lunatcharsky present plan is a great f Bobbery Museum, which he will call the Pro-clares that he is going to open to the public' the fnaa Gallery. He is uniting two houses in great Hermitage Gallery which has been closed for tore aristocratic. Sergeyesky-strein Pefro-n- d ever a year and a half. The Hermitage Gallery, 'these be will stock exclusively with was first built and stocked by Empress Catherine nd statues taken, by fo?ce from the bour- - the Great; R was rebuilt by Czar Nicholas 1; and Iriuie." , i - experts agree that it is the best collection of pic-- f aira, says Lunatcharsky, is to save art tares of its size in the world, and the best collecPeople. Last fall be discovered that what tion of, Dutch and Flemish pictures anywhere. In Possession of bourgeois citizens the stnrimer of 1917 when things began to look urban Communes of the Poor did not black, owing to Bolshevik threats and to the risk of art n destroyed it; and af- - a German inarch upon Petrograd, Alexander KeM,oti'an glass set worth f 5000 belonging to rensky, then chief of tho government, resolved to Tolsty, was found in fragments in ' the remove all die pictures to Moscow. This had to be Lunatcharsky got into a rage done in secrecy. The gallery, it was announced, Asdared that the must be more was doeed for the usual summer cleaning; and on bourgeois raid was the qniet. every single picture was packed ln (yKac!ly robbed. - A rate epae. On October 1st, without the public uh- Thebonrgeofs protested' asTKelg carried off; but in vain. not pectmg, the first four carloads of pictures left for rise bj us, the works will V stoeh ly others, Moscow. But the plan broke down. Bolshevism begsn When two unlicensed private natcharsky. cre caught making off with tapestry from Zaoff palzcc In the Nevsky Fro-c-handed over to the bloodthirsty Lett FeUrs, ! shut .c !cin both. . The tapestries were saved c Lunatcharsky Art Robbery Museum., hcrism spends money without stint on 0u ot Lunatcharsky' budget for education. TOCKHOLM. ge fo t g. . 84 et . house-to-hou- .If w ATHafcw LOOTED OoUrcdon of Gold Plate tVon Oie Grand Vladimir's Palace come from the Hermitage -- roof, the Red . Guards broke m. The first hing that struck, their eye was a flat packing case, closely resembling the a '" cases usednv Russiarfor-- packing rifles."'-ease kick the to open; tried furiated Red Guardsman end as he failed, he lighted a match and declared that be would burn the whole arsenal to the He set fire to the case, but as it lay on ground. the marble steps the fire did not spread; and the gallery was saved. That was the greatest risk suffered so far by any of the great collections. No collection has perished. But heavy losses are being caused by burg-of- lary and by the dishonesty of the Bolsheviks ficials. The Hermitage has been baSly plundered, not of pictures but of metal works of art. The first robbery took place last June in the famous Kertsch room, where is the worlds most Wonderful rOiri the Crimcollection of Greekremains--moFtly- f ea Winding gold- - diadem.,necklace9,braeelets, earrings; Greek and Byzantine money, with gold coins from the time of Alexander the Great; and most val- 200,040 other precious coins," of which liable are Russian gold coins minted under St. Vladimir, The Kertsch room was broken 'into; and sixty coins- - all gold disappeared. Tke robbers did not know that some of the diver and copper coins which they left were even more valuable. Two months later some of the coins were discovered in Novgorod south of Petrograd; and a sensational trial took place before a tribunal. The robbers swore that a watchman in the museum was their accomplice; arid he and they were all shot. No Hermitage pictures military-revolutiona- were then stolen; but another gang of robbers got into the musemrbf Alexander III, also in Petroby Aivassovsky; a grad, and' stole a .portrait of the young Russian woman painter, Marie Bashkirtseff, whose memoirs' made a great stir all over Europe twenty-fiv- e years ago; and three portraits by old --Russian painters which had no value except as part of the nation's art history. , WEEKLY ROBBERIES. Robberies in the Moscow Tretiakoff gallery, in the Rumantsieff museum and in the Kremlin take place nearly every week. Out. of the Tretiakoff gallery have disappeared four landscapes by Shish-kwhom experts consider the greatest of all Bus- eias painters. Two of the Shishkin pictures were ovUk to .Copenhagen and - there-aolThe first Kremlin robberies were dope when Ah Bol- shevika, after their success in Petrograd, bombard; ed Moscow from the Sparrow Hills. Shells went into th famou Palace bfr.Arms, where are uni counted millions worth of old armor, crowns, or- Tim Bolshevik Red naments and oriental dee-if- 8 soon after the bombaiMtnent entered the pal- ace and carried off half the armor; and with it a helmet made for Czar Feodor Ivanovrtch by an Italian- - artist. The Grand Kremlin Palace cleaned oat of all small objecta. got three d.- Heaw GKSirD DCKK VLADIMIR Art CtaOntor VTbomc TtvmtmuvM Hate Been Stolen montfca the curio shops in the Leostieff street were U-- tie Daks' . Pour of Lunatcharsky officials are under trial for full of plundered art Tbe bated bourgeois taking bribes of 15,000 roubles each, in exchange having much money in paper roubles, which they for which they alkrwedthe expoi ,o pictures from twS but bT file banks in older' to evideBoTshe-vis- it the Moroaoff collection. Sometimes smuggling out is expropriation, began to buy up the art tree- - done with the help of legation officials. Everyone cures. The energetic Lunatcharsky raided the art in Petrograd knows that members of some of the shops; recovered iftany Kremlin treasures; traced central legations amassed vast fortunes by smuga few of the original thieves; nd in the grim way gling out roubles for themselves, or on a 20 per of Bolshevism had them incontinently shot cent commission Ibasia. for others; and minor art Russias private art callectkras are dribbling objects were smuggled out in embassy mail hags slowly abroad, chiefly into' tbe . nearest neutral . o in diplomatic couriers baggage. . Months countries. ago the plundered aristocrats FINLANDS ART MARKET. had eaten up all their money; and as they are ip Once in Finland, the pictures a re usually tbe degraded Fourth Class of citizens who get no kept at Helsingfors until the neutral dealers arfood, they can keep alive only by buying food ilrive. Helsingfors today has permanent represent licitly at enormous prices or by bribing the Bolshetives of English, French and Dutch --art dealers. vik commissaries. To get the money, they sell their pictures and their jewelry. Fugitives tell Sometimes the pictures are brought direct to Scandinavia." When the pictures or'arf objects an weO " tmazingtalea of Row aCorot or a Greuze" goes to kmwiv-theare sold y quiet to avoid scandal; buy food for a weekrThedaughter of Prince and sometimes sold on the chain trade are they who married Rodzianko, and lately escaped system, passing through many hands in a few days, to Scandinavia, declares that it cost her 1000 rouso that if any question is asked, the last possessor ' bles a day nominally $500 to buy bread, herrings is always able to prove that he bought from perand twice a week horseflesh for a moderate-size- d sons of good reputation. 1 ' , family, Aristocrats who cannot put up sums like to The led new chain . trade has a art of phase cash starve. The from ones that lucky specuget forgery. The fact that valuable pictures from Ruslators; and pawn or sell in exchange their jewelsian collections are buyable abroad at relatively low ry and pictures. . To a Dutch dealer Countess Klein-mich- el prices tempts ignorant collectors, who reason missold paintings worth f 51,000, 000. The countess is daughter of Little Michael," Czar Nicholas takenly that everything coming from Russia iq well known fakes and copies, ls favorite, who 'piled up his rpillions by building genuine. themTherefore a copy of David Teniers picture of among railroads at extravagant cost. F meeting before th AntVcrp Rathaus and of the Into foreign hands are passing all the art treasures of the Romanoff grand dukes. Nicholas II's HermitageTtalian landscape of Poussin, have been late uncle. Grand Duke Vladimir, had one of the sold as genuine. Many pictures have come abroad . worlds test private ' collections in his palace - on as from, the palace of the Grand Duke Michael; the Palace Quay; his brother Alexis was also a and these are sold as genuine at high prices,- but -. the Michdo the not know Duke Grand that first-rat- e buyers collector; and most of the. younger grand set had a famous collection of copies which only - dukes bad galleries of value. Eleven grand dukes experts could distinguish from originals. In Vyhave already been murdered -- by Bolsheviks; and concern ahich borg in Finland is a Danish-DuULu"some of their art property has been seized by fakes for the and m neutral prepares market; Museum. his But for before . Robbery natcharsky Lunateharskys hand fell, the best pictures were I'etrograd similar business goes on. The local d;eZinovicff bouse the raid aor a ordered upon lately domo. valets and These majors grabbed by servants, his brothcr Bolshevik Varlamoff, whose sod- picture are dribbling abroad.' In Stockholm at pf Varla-pwealth excited dwi,y acquired drand suspicion. to Duke present are four pictures belonging Vladimir; - a 'Tintoretto, a Guido Reni, and two off. if was found, was deal.ng profisab'y in copies end fakes for the foreign market; and he did good genre pictures from tbe French eighteenth this with uncommon success. He Taj even fooled century.' Berlin's mx-- t expert art firms, ,ihe agimi xfione-oBolshevism prcngngcd ln s jeea3eleg3 struggle a The collection of Prince Saltykoff, great art with the smuggler? abroad of pictures. Oaf the frd nf' January, 19W, two months after Lenine "formerly in a palage on the Dergeyev.-k- y street, and Trotsky seized power, a decree was issued for-- s Petrograd, is now nafej inFinl!ind. .0n!y a fgw irtnor objects haO been lost. After weeks of bidding export of works of art. "The guard on Ihe Furnish frontier, till then only a thin chain along preparation and intriguing, the gallery was nmug-ge- d out. ln tbe Sister river, was doubled in strength and ,ie courtyard of the palace were assembled fifty sledges; ami th slwige horses were "tended further north. It now stretches all the stabled a short distance away. .Natumlly, the Bolway to the Norwegian frontier.. But the Sometimes succeed. take the full they glers risk; sheviks wanted to know what the great preparathey bribe the frontier guards ; some- - tions were about. They sent a police official to in- t they bribe the higher Bolshevik authorities. tContinoed on pace 'i n f i t on-tbe t 'm -- h i 'C ? t , t - . i f smug-wonderf- ul . V 'i I ll tvoj It- |