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00:00:00Golden Khokhloma, how cunning merchants profit from
00:00:04ancient folk art and "khokhlomachiev",
00:00:08selling fakes, how dangerous are counterfeits made from cheap
00:00:11raw materials, and what a real production
00:00:14of masterpieces looks like. Our report from the birthplace of the famous
00:00:17painting: witness interrogation completed,
00:00:21next are closing arguments and the verdict. What the
00:00:24daughter of the murdered former mayor of Samara, Viktor Tarkhov, testified
00:00:27about in court, what the accused promised to tell...
00:00:30a high-profile case. The art of ensuring
00:00:33security: how the most beautiful battalion of the Russian Guard
00:00:37protects the Hermitage. Why do they need
00:00:40cats?
00:00:46The Tagansky Court of Moscow arrested Kristina Borisova, due to whose fault
00:00:50a motorcyclist died while driving a Bentley. The girl,
00:00:53who had her driver's license revoked, turned across a
00:00:56double solid line and left the biker no choice.
00:01:08Just yesterday, Kristina Borisova was driving around Moscow in a
00:01:12white and blue Bentley for 30 million
00:01:15rubles. Her new transport is of the same colors, but clearly more modest:
00:01:19a police paddy wagon. The girl was brought to the Tagansky District
00:01:23Court for a pre-trial detention hearing.
00:01:27Borisova did not hide her face, as often happens in such cases.
00:01:30She calmly entered the hall with a bottle of water in her hands. There were no
00:01:34tears or remorse in her eyes, because according to police data, a motorcyclist died
00:01:38due to her fault. The fatal accident occurred at this
00:01:41intersection. The motorcyclist was moving from the side of Proletarskaya Street, and Kristina
00:01:45Borisova blocked his way. She
00:01:48sharply turned across the double solid line. Here are these frames. The girl
00:01:52in the Bentley unexpectedly swerves into the oncoming lane. The motorcyclist, who
00:01:55is moving in his lane, does not have time to react and crashes
00:01:59into the elite foreign car.
00:02:02Biker Denis Gorin, general director of the investment company,
00:02:06died. The probable culprit of the accident did not receive
00:02:09serious injuries and, according to eyewitnesses, fled the scene of
00:02:12the accident. She got out of the car and ran off into
00:02:15the alley, and when the traffic police arrived, they brought her back from there.
00:02:19In these frames, Borisova is already sitting in a police car, looking
00:02:23bewildered. Her parents quickly arrived at the scene of the accident.
00:02:26What condition is your daughter in now?
00:02:30She had an accident. Their silence is understandable, because Kristina, at
00:02:33the time of the accident, had her driver's license revoked, and this
00:02:37accident was the seventh for the premium-class car in the last
00:02:406 years. The Bentley has 146 fines,
00:02:44almost 300,000 rubles. Most of them are for
00:02:47illegal parking, there are also speeding and driving in the oncoming
00:02:50lane violations. Kristina Borisova, by the way, has repeatedly been at the center of
00:02:54traffic scandals. In these frames, presumably Kristina, along with
00:02:58a friend, is trying to escape from a police officer. The girl was stopped
00:03:02allegedly because she got behind the wheel of a carsharing vehicle using
00:03:05a fake account. "It's a long story, he didn't give
00:03:09anything." In this video too,
00:03:12Kristina is this time covering the license plate of a car near a restaurant on
00:03:16Patriarch's Ponds. The girl is covering the license plate of a
00:03:19Bentley, the latest model. Kristina Borisova studied at Moscow State University.
00:03:23There is no official information about her work. However, journalists learned curious
00:03:26details about her travels. 20.
00:04:00several more expensive cars are registered, perhaps
00:04:03that's why her parents so easily entrusted their beloved daughter with a powerful car
00:04:07that accelerates to 100 km/h in
00:04:094.5 seconds. According to experts, if the girl
00:04:13had followed traffic rules, the accident with the motorcyclist could
00:04:17have been avoided. In recent days, cases where
00:04:20motorcyclists are involved in accidents
00:04:24due to the fault of cars are becoming more frequent, because when performing certain
00:04:27maneuvers, especially in the evening, especially in... weather,
00:04:30motorists simply do not have time to see the motorcyclist
00:04:34moving in the opposite direction. A criminal
00:04:37case has been initiated regarding the high-profile accident. The prosecutor's office
00:04:41of the Central Administrative District is monitoring
00:04:44the investigation of the circumstances of the road traffic accident.
00:04:48Employees of the investment company, which was managed by the deceased motorcyclist
00:04:51Denis Gorin, as well as his close ones, are currently refraining from comments. But
00:04:55of course, they very much hope that this time the reckless Borisova will not escape
00:04:59punishment and will not be able to drive a car for a long time. By court
00:05:03decision, she will definitely spend the next 2 months in pre-trial detention. Yana
00:05:06Nalimova, Valeria Vershinina, Vesti, Duty
00:05:09Unit. Thousands of Russian Guard officers and police
00:05:13are on heightened alert these days. They are guarding polling stations,
00:05:16and additional patrols have been organized in the streets, at train stations, and
00:05:20airports. The law enforcement officers themselves
00:05:23were among the first to vote. Our correspondent Anton Shestakov also made his
00:05:27choice and saw how the
00:05:29security forces work. At Yaroslavsky railway station in the capital,
00:05:33passengers are met and escorted by armed officers of the Russian Guard and
00:05:36police. During the elections in Moscow, as throughout the country,
00:05:40security measures have been strengthened, with special attention.
00:06:42around the city of Moscow. We are in the very heart of the capital's main department
00:06:46of the Russian Guard, where an operational headquarters has been established for the duration of the elections, which
00:06:49includes heads of departments of the capital's main department of the Russian Guard, as well as
00:06:52officers of units that are under the operational
00:06:56command of the capital's main department during the elections. This is the 55th division and
00:07:00the separate special purpose division ADON. All information
00:07:03from the city's polling stations flows here. For example, on
00:07:07this screen, cameras are displayed that are located on Russian Guard
00:07:10officers when they... work
00:07:13at polling stations. Here,
00:07:16officers, commanders
00:07:19of non-departmental security units by districts, are displayed, and on the
00:07:23third screen, cameras of the safe city that show
00:07:27the general situation in the capital during the elections. While we were filming this
00:07:31material, alarming information was received at the headquarters about a suspicious object found
00:07:34near a polling station, in the area of polling station number 2910. This is
00:07:38school 2005
00:07:41of the North-Western District of Moscow. about the discovery of an unattended
00:07:43bag
00:07:46near the fence. The area has been cordoned off,
00:07:49measures are being taken. Here is another emergency: non-departmental security
00:07:52officers provided assistance to a pensioner who felt ill
00:07:56at the polling station. The woman was hospitalized with
00:07:59a heart attack.
00:08:02Security at polling stations is provided by employees of private
00:08:06security companies. Their work is also controlled by the Russian Guard, but
00:08:09undoubtedly, points for collecting information about the voting process
00:08:12are in a special zone of attention. Of course, not only the polling
00:08:16stations themselves are guarded, but perhaps the two most
00:08:19important places are the buildings of the Moscow City Electoral Commission and
00:08:23the Central Electoral Commission. Here, there is increased attention. Police officers
00:08:26stand along the perimeter, employees of non-departmental security, employees of OMON
00:08:30Avangard, the main directorate of the Russian Guard for the city of Moscow.
00:08:34The guys have standard issue weapons with them, Makarov pistols and Kalashnikov
00:08:37assault rifles. In case of necessity, they have the right to use them. Therefore, employees
00:08:41of the Russian Guard and...
00:09:23Such preparations for the single voting day took place across the country.
00:09:26These are footage from Irkutsk, where Russian Guard units
00:09:30are lined up on the parade ground and ready to start duty. And this is
00:09:33Bryansk, where fully equipped fighters receive last
00:09:36instructions before heading out on their route. In Arkhangelsk and
00:09:39Ivanovo, polling stations were checked by dog handlers
00:09:42with dogs.
00:09:44Increased attention to security measures is also observed in the new territories. These are footage
00:09:48from the Zaporozhye region and the Donetsk People's Republic, where Russian Guard officers
00:09:52guard polling stations as if they were on the line
00:09:56of combat contact, in bulletproof vests with automatic rifles in
00:09:59their hands, so that everyone who came to cast their vote felt
00:10:02safe. Anton
00:10:05Chastakov, Okseniya Sorokina, Sergey Klinkov, Vesti, Duty
00:10:08Unit. Horned ram, all over the country.
00:10:12Moose are attacking motorists. This week, several high-profile
00:10:16accidents occurred. For example, in the Oryol
00:10:19region, a collision with a moose cost the driver and two of his
00:10:23passengers their lives.
00:10:55In Moscow, the accident happened around 8 pm in the dark. He jumped
00:10:59over the oncoming barrier right in front of
00:11:03our car. There was about half a second to react. The moment of the accident
00:11:06was captured by road cameras. Here, a moose unhurriedly crosses half
00:11:10of the roadway. Drivers see the animal, drive around it, and flash
00:11:14their hazard lights. The moose reaches the dividing barrier,
00:11:17jumps over it, and is immediately hit by Alexander Kazakov's car. "My
00:11:21eyes were in the glass." The moose died on the spot and remained lying
00:11:25in the middle of the roadway. At immense speed, another car crashed into it.
00:11:28The car overturned and flew several dozen
00:11:32meters.
00:11:36Fortunately, the participants of the accident got away with bruises and scratches.
00:11:40The horn tore off,
00:11:43and flew into the cabin. The wrecked car, along with the trophy horn, was taken
00:11:47on a tow truck to Kazan. Expensive repairs are ahead.
00:11:50This is equivalent to a collision
00:11:53with, for example, a motorcyclist.
00:11:55Even if we cannot immediately assess it without detailed inspection,
00:11:59in any case, it will cost more than 100,000 rubles. In the last
00:12:02two weeks, accidents involving moose have been recorded almost every day.
00:12:06This is the Oryol region. On the night from Thursday to Friday, a moose jumped
00:12:10onto the highway. The driver and two passengers died. In the Novgorod
00:12:13region, a collision with a moose cost the life of
00:12:16a 35-year-old car driver. Moose are currently
00:12:19in their rutting season. They do not feel danger and can travel
00:12:23more than 120 km per day. They do this to find a potential
00:12:27partner. They also become braver at this time,
00:12:30and therefore often enter cities, including cities. This is Yaroslavl
00:12:34Highway. A moose confidently weaves through the traffic. Another moose
00:12:38reached Moscow, dictating its rules at the intersection.
00:12:42"A moose, holy cow! And I have to turn now, and it seems
00:12:45he does too." In migration areas for moose, road
00:12:49signs for wild animals are installed. Fences
00:12:52installed along forest areas are supposed to prevent animals
00:12:55from entering federal highways, but the horned animals
00:12:59break through every spring and autumn. We decided to drive along
00:13:02Moscow region highways and check the condition of these
00:13:05fences. The surroundings of the M-11 highway,
00:13:09a toll road to St. Petersburg. We drove about
00:13:12three kilometers from Moscow, stopped at a random spot, and
00:13:16indeed, there is such a chain-link fence all along the forest perimeter.
00:13:19Whether it can hold back a moose weighing over 300 kg
00:13:23is a question. Well, we walked about 50 meters and found
00:13:27a hole in the fence. In this forest, there are definitely
00:13:30animals, and the road is about 20 meters away, and traffic on
00:13:34it does not subside day or night. The situation is alarming on
00:13:37free highways, this is M10, Leningradskoe Highway.
00:13:41Next to it is a fence with holes of different types and sizes. In some
00:13:45places, the net is stretched as if just for show. Well,
00:13:47like here, the mesh is tied
00:13:51to a pole with thin wires. Most likely, this hole is the work of
00:13:55humans, a path leads to the forest... and if you walk another
00:13:59ten meters, then there is another
00:14:03hole in the fence. Here, the mesh is bent towards the
00:14:06road, as if some animal broke through it at a run
00:14:10and went towards the roadway. Road workers assure that almost all
00:14:13the holes in the fence are the work of humans. The mesh is cut by
00:14:17mushroom pickers and lovers of forest walks. All this is inspected
00:14:20daily by road masters. Inspected.
00:14:24Accepted.
00:14:29This is all restored weekly. Part of the problem of animals appearing on busy highways could be
00:14:33solved by ecoducts, which are bridges for animal migration, built over
00:14:37highways. Instead of asphalt, there is earth and vegetation, a complete
00:14:40imitation of a natural environment. But wild animals take a very
00:14:43long time to get used to new structures and are not always willing to use
00:14:47them. It's easier for a moose to rush across the highway,
00:14:51cutting off the traffic flow.
00:14:55Wild animals are state
00:14:57property. In case of an accident, the motorist will have to pay compensation to the treasury:
00:15:0180,000 rubles if a moose was injured in the accident.
00:15:04For a wild boar, they will be forced to reimburse 30,000, and 40,000 for a
00:15:07roe deer. For a dead wolf or fox, they will have to pay
00:15:11200 rubles per animal. If an accident occurred,
00:15:14you cannot leave the scene of the accident. You need to call the police and report
00:15:18the incident to the hunting inspectors. By OSAGO, you can get
00:15:22compensation, meaning the insurance company
00:15:25will pay the state 80,000 rubles. But he will still be left with a broken
00:15:29car that needs repairs. Often, accidents involving moose lead to
00:15:33human fatalities. An animal on thin legs weighing up to
00:15:36half a ton. The center of gravity is just at the level
00:15:39of the windshield. In accidents, the carcass often ends up in
00:15:42the cabin. The hero of our report, Alexander Kozakov, was lucky. He
00:15:46managed to steer away and hit the moose tangentially, but now
00:15:50he is afraid to drive in the dark. In the dark, we currently have a very
00:15:54big phobia of driving. Alexander Kozakov, as required,
00:15:58called the traffic police and game wardens. They took the carcass and registered the death
00:16:01of the moose. No fines have been reported yet, but Alexander claims
00:16:05that the accident was unavoidable.
00:16:16Ekaterina Maksimova, Ekaterina Chuyko, Alexander Peshkov, Azat Otagonov, Vesti Duty
00:16:19Unit. The reprisal against the former mayor of Samara, Viktor
00:16:23Tarkhov, and his wife was a contract killing, so believes their daughter Lyudmila
00:16:26Tarkhova, who herself is in prison for extortion. This week, she
00:16:30testified in court regarding the case of her daughter
00:16:34Ekaterina, accused of double murder.
00:16:37The act of the defendant Tarkhova is vile, cowardly,
00:16:41and inhuman. During her testimony in court,
00:16:44Lyudmila Tarkhova, recognized as a victim, periodically
00:16:47looked at a previously prepared text. Her daughter
00:16:50Ekaterina listened dispassionately. It was she, as investigators
00:16:53established, who dealt with her own grandmother and
00:16:57grandfather, allegedly poisoning them with drugs
00:17:00beforehand, then together with accomplices, froze
00:17:03the bodies, dismembered them, and scattered them in garbage bins.
00:18:37According to experts, there is a rise in counterfeit products
00:18:41of the famous decorative painting known worldwide. Dishonest
00:18:44merchants sell cheap
00:18:47imitations as folk art
00:18:50products. Well, these spoons with a bright
00:18:53ornament in a combination of golden and red colors on a dark
00:18:56background, we purchased in a souvenir shop as part of a journalistic
00:19:00experiment. Well, it looks attractive, although
00:19:03in fact it's a fake. How to distinguish
00:19:06a fake. And who are they, the true guardians of the tradition
00:19:10in the homeland of Khokhloma in the Nizhny Novgorod region, our
00:19:13correspondent Daniil
00:19:15Sukhoruchka found out.
00:19:19Matryoshka dolls, plates, ladles, and other wooden
00:19:22items with the famous Khokhloma painting begin their journey
00:19:26in the turning shop, where future masterpieces
00:19:28are born.
00:19:32Then the blanks are distributed throughout the enterprise, where they will be covered
00:19:35with paint, varnish, and many more
00:19:37stages. Artists manually apply the world-famous Khokhloma
00:19:40ornaments. For most of them, this is not just
00:19:44a job, but a calling. Luiza Malysheva came to the factory when she
00:19:47was 15. In almost 40 years in the profession, she has never regretted
00:19:51dedicating her life to folk crafts. I like Khokhloma,
00:19:55especially these, when we plant birds,
00:19:58fish, and so on, the whole composition
00:20:02curls, that's what I like. For our program,
00:20:06Luiza conducted a master class. Look,
00:20:10we hold the brush with three fingers, like this,
00:20:18vertically, the brush points to
00:20:21the ceiling. The factory is located in the small town of Semyonov
00:20:25in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This is one of two enterprises whose products have
00:20:28the right to be called real Khokhloma. The history of this famous craft began
00:20:32in the 14th century, when local craftsmen came up with a way to paint
00:20:36wooden dishes using precious metals. And in the
00:20:3920th century, a school opened in Semyonov where Khokhloma painting was taught.
00:20:43Later, its students founded an artel that
00:20:46grew into a factory. Here you can see by period: the
00:20:5020s, the 50s, the
00:20:5360s, the 70s, in the 70s
00:20:57there was a consolidation of ornaments. In the homeland of the famous Khokhloma,
00:21:01traditions are carefully preserved, but they are forced to compete and fight
00:21:05with manufacturers of fakes that have flooded the shelves of souvenir
00:21:08shops. Unscrupulous craftsmen copy unique patterns and
00:21:12ornaments, or as they say in these parts, "podkhokhlomuchivayut" (faking Khokhloma).
00:21:15Such consumer goods are often made from raw materials dangerous to human health,
00:21:19violating technology. Quality Khokhloma
00:21:22products are impossible without industrial
00:21:26production, that is, it must be a precise temperature-time
00:21:29regime, without hardening in ovens, without proper
00:21:32technology, it is impossible. At the factory, they showed
00:21:35us how to distinguish original products from
00:21:38fakes. For example, on large items with Khokhloma painting,
00:21:41there will always be the artist's signature. It is also worth paying attention
00:21:45to the drawing itself. Inaccuracies and unevenness are reasons to
00:21:48doubt. And if we take these spoons, you feel
00:21:52a lot of grit there, here you won't even notice
00:21:55a hair, you won't see it, but there are just
00:21:58a lot of some strange specks, fragments, well,
00:22:02it's not smooth here. Armed with the knowledge gained,
00:22:06we went to the main tourist street of Nizhny
00:22:09Novgorod to check the local souvenir shops. In the very first one, we
00:22:12found a suspicious spoon with painting. For original goods, businessmen should
00:22:16have a special certificate, but the seller, upon hearing a question about documents...
00:22:20decided to close the store. So you won't sell? Well, my cash register is not
00:22:24working, I can't give you a receipt. In the next shop,
00:22:27we found a whole shelf of probable fakes. As part of a journalistic
00:22:30experiment, we bought the goods, and then called the police to the scene.
00:22:34We bought spoons from you,
00:22:37please show us the documents for them. The sellers could not show documents,
00:22:41promising that the manager would do it later. We returned the next
00:22:44day, but they still didn't show us any certificates. Aren't you ashamed
00:22:48of yourselves? I don't have that information.
00:22:52What information? We don't have anything under Khokhloma. While we were talking to
00:22:55the manager, our spoons bought in this shop disappeared from
00:22:59the counter. "Girls, my spoons were here, where did you put them?" Only when
00:23:02we said we would call the police because of theft, the spoons were found.
00:23:06"Why did you take them? What were they even doing here?" The store moved
00:23:10the spoons here, they probably wanted to simply hide what they were selling.
00:23:14What is being sold to tourists under the guise of Khokhloma will now be investigated
00:23:17by the police. A report on this fact... was received by the police,
00:23:21an investigation is underway. Even more fakes of original
00:23:24Khokhloma can be found on marketplaces. As part of a journalistic
00:23:28experiment, we ordered a couple of spoons, supposedly with original
00:23:31Khokhloma painting, and showed them to an expert. The spoons turned
00:23:35out to be fakes, covered with low-quality paints and varnish, making them dangerous
00:23:39to eat with. Why is counterfeit production dangerous?
00:23:42Because it not only violates
00:23:45rights, but it creates problems for the consumer, it carries
00:23:49a risk... Representatives of marketplaces explained to us that they
00:23:52do not have separate tools to combat the sale of fake folk art
00:23:56products. For rights holders, we have a brand
00:23:59office. This is a tool that allows you to track products under your
00:24:03brand and promptly file complaints. Original products are
00:24:06fully functional. Dishes can be used as intended.
00:24:10Paints and varnish are made at the enterprise itself, they are safe
00:24:13in contact with food. So-called artisans also inflict financial
00:24:17damage on real Khokhloma manufacturers. Factories
00:24:20underreceive profits, so now the Nizhny Novgorod region has actively taken up the fight against
00:24:24unscrupulous merchants, and there are already many court decisions in favor
00:24:28of the rights holder. It is important for us that every guest of our
00:24:31country, every resident of our country who has a
00:24:35Khokhloma item at home, be confident that it is the real
00:24:38Khokhloma. We are currently conducting preventive work. Those who
00:24:42are related to Khokhloma, those who sell
00:24:45products not from the factory, please remove
00:24:49them from your shelves. We showed the spoons bought in souvenir shops to
00:24:52the Minister of Tourism and Crafts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and he
00:24:55confirmed that they have no relation to original Khokhloma
00:24:59whatsoever. Look, I honestly want to cry.
00:25:02They disfigured, disfigured our
00:25:06little strawberry, this little
00:25:09tail. Well, this is just a disaster.
00:25:12The work to protect the ancient Russian craft will continue,
00:25:16and it is quite possible that the rights holders will be able to clear the market.
00:25:50Based on the results of last year and the first
00:25:53half of the current year, our claims for a total
00:25:57amount of more than 3 trillion rubles have been
00:26:00satisfied in favor of the treasury. Thousands of houses,
00:26:04apartments, other real estate, vehicles,
00:26:07financial assets, production complexes
00:26:11and related business structures, acquired
00:26:14using corrupt resources and corrupt
00:26:18schemes, have been seized. In Minsk, Alexander Gutsan also held
00:26:21several important meetings and negotiations with foreign colleagues. Welcoming
00:26:25the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus Dmitry Guru, he noted the
00:26:29stable practical nature of bilateral relations.
00:27:16performers gathered stadiums and gave three concerts a
00:27:19day.
00:27:27The founder and producer of the group, Alexander Shushenin, was murdered in March
00:27:311999.
00:28:02received royalties for every publicly performed song. For
00:28:06me, this is a very important court decision, because for many
00:28:10years composer Vitaly Okorokov claimed authorship of texts
00:28:13that my dad wrote. The agreement between Gem
00:28:17company and Okorokov was declared null and void,
00:28:20which is equivalent to Okorokov not having the rights
00:28:24to transfer them to Gem company. Gem publishing house
00:28:27has repeatedly been at the center of scandals. Its general director, Andrey
00:28:31Cherkasov, became a defendant in a fraud case. Recently, his pre-trial detention
00:28:34was extended until November 20. Vitaly
00:28:38Okrokov, composer of the band Combination, who previously
00:28:41worked with Gem, specially for the final issue of our
00:28:44program, commented on the decision of the arbitration court
00:28:48to terminate the contract with the music publisher. We recorded
00:28:51this interview with him at the Saratov Regional Philharmonic, where
00:28:54he, together with Alexander Shishinin, once created the group
00:28:58Combination. Formally, the authorship remains with
00:29:03Shishinin, because they are legally registered with RAO,
00:29:06but in fact, witnesses testified in court,
00:29:10everyone said that Shishinin did not write a single letter,
00:29:13not even a word, in the text of Combination. This
00:29:17was my fateful mistake 40 years ago when a friend
00:29:21asked me to make him a co-author. Well, he wanted
00:29:24this glory, you understand. I went along with it, and now
00:29:28after so many years, I have to sort all this out. While disputes over
00:29:32the rights to songs by the band Combination, which have long become popular,
00:29:35are ongoing, they still do not lose popularity, this is a fragment
00:29:38of a performance by a choir from the city of Kopeysk. You
00:29:41told me fairy tales,
00:29:45but I didn't believe you.
00:29:48It's obvious that the battle for the hits of the Combination will continue. As we already
00:29:52reported, earlier police officers opened a criminal case for copyright infringement
00:29:55of song lyrics by the legendary band Combination. The daughter of the founder
00:29:59of the musical group was recognized
00:30:02as a victim.
00:30:06Against the backdrop of reports of a series of high-profile thefts from European museums, our values are under
00:30:09reliable protection. For example, order within the walls of the State
00:30:13Hermitage is monitored by female officers
00:30:15of the unique female battalion of the Russian Guard.
00:30:18The treasure house of world culture is in their beautiful
00:30:22hands. Here are more than 3
00:30:25million works of art, paintings of the Renaissance era, the only
00:30:29sculpture by Michelangelo in Russia.
00:30:40These two Madonnas with child, genuine beauty, the Hermitage, according to its general director Mikhail Piotrovsky,
00:30:43preserves not only the artworks themselves, but also history.
00:30:47About why this is especially valuable today from St. Petersburg. My
00:30:51colleague, Alina Skachkova.
00:30:54These girls always take a pistol
00:30:56with them to the museum.
00:30:58And also a helmet and a baton. This is how every morning begins for the officers of the most
00:31:03beautiful battalion of the Russian Guard in the Hermitage. The ladies go not to look at
00:31:06masterpieces, but to guard them. This year, the battalion celebrates a round
00:31:10date. For 10 years now, the female officers, who are predominantly
00:31:13women, have been providing
00:31:26security. Maintaining order in such a significant place is also a kind of
00:31:30art. The female officers are trained in this during special
00:31:33briefings. The Hermitage is visited by 4 million people a
00:31:36year, and not all of them behave culturally. Therefore, the female officers
00:31:40practice capture techniques, they can elegantly detain an intruder,
00:31:44even in heels.
00:31:47The female officers of the Russian Guard greet visitors from all over the world at the entrance to
00:31:51the Hermitage, they know several languages, for example, they speak
00:31:54Chinese to tourists from China.
00:31:57Put all metal objects out. It is important to ensure that museum guests do not
00:32:01carry explosives, poisons or weapons with them. An inspection
00:32:05module is installed in the arch of the main gates of the Winter Palace, where visitors'
00:32:08belongings are checked with X-rays. Knives were found in the bags of several
00:32:11people. Why bring a knife?
00:32:16Why? I'm from the train. But sometimes such
00:32:19situations end in commotion. In spring, a visitor
00:32:22climbed over the rope barrier, climbed onto the great imperial throne
00:32:26and began to deliver a speech, waving a knife: for me, the
00:32:29result is important, not this stool. When a security officer of the
00:32:33museum tried to stop the troublemaker, he almost hit him with
00:32:36a knife. Russian Guard fighters came to the rescue, they tied up
00:32:40the armed man. The Hermitage is one of the largest museums in the world, its
00:32:43collections number about 3 million works of art. Here
00:32:47are ancient artifacts, antique sculptures, works by great
00:32:50European artists and objects of Eastern art. In the halls,
00:32:54the female officers of the Russian Guard cautiously stride past masterpieces by
00:32:57Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian. Travelers from
00:33:01China come more and more often to see the famous paintings. The female officers of the battalion,
00:33:04in the tourists' native language, give warnings not to get close to the
00:33:08paintings, otherwise the
00:33:10alarm will go off.
00:33:13Hello, be careful.
00:33:16Okay, okay, thank you! Fluffy guardians, cats, help the ladies in
00:33:19uniform carry out their duties. They settled in the Hermitage back in the
00:33:2218th century. They hunted mice that spoiled the imperial
00:33:26furniture, but rodents are, of course, the least of the problems. Most often
00:33:29you have to deal with the fact that people don't understand why they are being searched. Many
00:33:33people come in an intoxicated state. Very rarely do we call one or two, as we currently have
00:33:37a dialogue, as we should be psychologists a little. But sometimes persuasion does not
00:33:41help. Recently, the Russian Guard officers had to remove two roofers
00:33:44from the roof of the Winter Palace, and also detain a citizen who so
00:33:48badly wanted to touch the beautiful that he broke the finger of the statue of Empress
00:33:51Alexandra Fyodorovna. The hooligan was quickly identified by cameras and handed over
00:33:55to the police. Thanks, in part, to such an operational response, there have been no high-profile thefts
00:33:59or property damage at the Hermitage for a long time. This is the
00:34:03main indicator of the work of the Russian Guard officers. One of the serious
00:34:06incidents occurred more than 40 years ago. A strange visitor approached
00:34:10Rembrandt's painting Danaë, poured sulfuric acid on the painting
00:34:14and cut it with a knife. The vandal was promptly detained by an officer
00:34:17of the departmental security Ivan Zhasan. After that, the troublemaker
00:34:20was sent for compulsory treatment, and the damaged canvas for
00:34:23restoration for a long 12 years. Now the canvas is under protective
00:34:27glass. To prevent such situations, the Russian Guard officers
00:34:30regularly train: first, they hone their shooting skills at
00:34:33the shooting range, then practice combat techniques on
00:34:37mats. In these frames, officers of the Russian Guard's departmental security and
00:34:41OMON fighters storm the Hermitage at night. According to the exercise legend.
00:35:01ours consists of women,
00:35:04who pass, or rather first
00:35:08selection, and then special training, including
00:35:11fire, tactical training, first aid... comfort
00:35:45is one of the most difficult tasks. And so, another day in
00:35:48the imperial interiors has come to an end, but even after the museum closes,
00:35:51the Russian Guard officers continue to serve, so that
00:35:55tomorrow the Hermitage will open its doors again. Alyona Skachkova, Alexey
00:35:58Gorshkov and Roman Sladkov, Vesti Duty
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