Ilissos Statue, Elgin Marbles

[yansee]

Has Russia returned the Ilissos statue or are they refusing to do so ?

[jno]

yes they have, seven years ago

http://www.elginism.com/elgin-marbles/ilissos-returns-to-british-museum-but-not-to-duveen-gallery/20150312/7836/

[yansee]

Thanks jno settles a bet I had in the pub last night

[jno]

I hope you won

[yansee]

I did , easy £10

[Hopkirk]

Your pub sounds like a barrel of fun.

[yansee]

Hopkirk , it is and as a rule we don't have such exciting conversations too busy ducking the flying chairs and glasses

[Khandro]

It doesn't seem to have had much publicity, but when fleeing Kherson the Russians took not only the coffin & remains of Prince Grigory Potemkin, (a hero of Putin) who on behalf of Catherine the Great captured Crimea for Russia, but they have emptied the entire art collection of the museum & carried it off the Russia.
https://kyivindependent.com/national/empty-kherson-art-museum-in-despair-after-entire-collection-stolen-by-russia