Heinrich Schliemann’s famous “Gold of Troy” at the Pushkin Museum’s “booty” exhibition.
None have been seen in public in more than 60 years. All are spoils of war, seized by Soviet troops from the ruins of Berlin in 1945 and carted back to Moscow. The exhibition – especially because of its timing – could easily be viewed as either a memorial to the ravages of war or as the taunt of a boastful victor.
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The most famous is a collection of gold known as Priam’s Treasure, recovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1873 in what he believed to be ancient Troy. The Pushkin displayed the treasures in 1996 and has since dropped any question of its return. The gold is back in storage.