The Art Newspaper Russia and the BBC found out details about the fake sculptures of Ernst Neizvestny. There are even more questions: some sources say that obvious fakes were exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, others doubt it

On May 29, the Investigative Committee of Russia spoke about a group of falsifiers that forges the works of the famous Soviet-American sculptor Ernst Neizvestny. The only accused whose name was named was naval officer Maxim Koshkarev. Some fakes could have ended up at the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery; the Investigative Committee conducted a search there. Art critic Sofya Bagdasarova, in a text for The Art Newspaper Russia, told the details of this story; Another material was released by the BBC Russian Service, written by Svetlana Reiter and the publication’s investigative department. We tell you what became known from their texts (everything is still very confusing).