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Show Reds and Art. The Russian Reds are guilty of much rough work, but it appears that they do sometimes know and reverence the treasures of art. The famous Hermitage Her-mitage gallery in I'etrograd has been reopened and again all the paintings it once contained, except a few unimportant unim-portant ones, are hung. In this collection collec-tion are great masterpieces bearing the names of Titian, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Rem-brandt, Velasquez and Murillo. The Bolsheviki removed the paintings to Moscow in the spring of 1918 when it was feared the Germans would capture Petrograd, and the priceless paintings were placed in the hands of a committee commit-tee at the head of which is the novelist, novel-ist, Maxim Gorky. Private collections which the owners turned over to the Gorky committee are also safe. |