The Russian police have found the two works by celebrated Russian Armenian seascape artist Ivan (Hovhannes) Aivazovsky, and Russian landscape painter Vasily Polenov, and which were stolen from the Tarusa Art Gallery in Russia, informed the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Two men from Kaluga city were arrested for the theft of these paintings, and one of them was previously convicted.  The police seized Aivazovsky’s “Sea off the Island of Capri,” and Polenov’s “Head of the Jerusalem Jew” from the arrestees. The police also found a painting by an unknown artist, and entitled “Before the Crucifixion with Saints and Francis of Assisi,” in a pawnshop, reported RIA Novosti news agency of Russia.  According to experts, the total value of these three paintings is 7.5 million Russian rubles (approx. US$114,350).