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11.04.2022

Carlo Labruzzi's View of the Colosseum from the Palatine Hill (oil on canvas, 1780, Italy) Tsarskoe Selo CollectionCarlo Labruzzi's View of the Colosseum from the Palatine Hill (oil on canvas, 1780, Italy) Tsarskoe Selo Collection Unloading the canvas' crate

Unloading the canvas' crateUnloading the canvas' crate The canvas' crate in the Stasov Hall, Catherine Palace

The canvas' crate in the Stasov Hall, Catherine PalaceThe canvas' crate in the Stasov Hall, Catherine Palace Unpacking the canvas

Unpacking the canvasUnpacking the canvas Waiters' Room, Catherine Palace

Waiters' Room, Catherine PalaceWaiters' Room, Catherine Palace

The 1780 oil on canvas View of the Colosseum from the Palatine Hill by Carlo Labruzzi has returned to Tsarskoe Selo after the exhibition Grand Tour. Sogno d'Italia da Venezia a Pompei (The Grand Tour: The dream of Italy from Venice to Pompeii) at Milan's Gallerie d'Italia–Piazza Scala from 18 November 2021 to 27 March 2022,

Earlier in April, the canvas was detained by Finnish customs officials on its route back to Russia, together with other objects loaned to Italian exhibition venues by the State Hermitage and the Pavlovsk State Museum, the Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the State Museum of the East.

According to Russia's minister of culture, the European authorities “clarified that the exhibits that participated in European exhibitions do not fall into the sanctions list.”