St Petersburg court acquits art historian in Boris Grigoriev forgery case
A court acquitted Elena Basner of fraud in a case over a purported version of Boris Grigoriev’s In the Restaurant. The court found that she had made an error in assessing the painting and ruled that she had not committed a premeditated crime.
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