Husband of Deceased Hermitage Curator to Be Tried for Thefts

Nikolai Zavadsky, husband of Larisa Zavadskaya, deceased curator of the State Hermitage Museum, will “stand trial on charges he stole art objects from the Hermitage with his late wife,” Reuters reports.
The Russian Prosecutor-General has charged Zavadsky in the “theft of 77 objects from the museum’s department of Russian cultural history. Some 221 objects were discovered missing last summer.