In the Catherine Park of the Museum-reserve “Tsarskoye Selo”, St.-Petersburg, the child dropped the bust of the dying giant of the eighteenth century, reported the press service of the Museum.
“Bust suffered serious damage”, — stated in the message. According to the press service, the boy was in the Park together with his parents and brother. As assured the father, the child dropped the bust by negligence.
“At the scene made the act. He fixed the chips and cracks, especially dangerous horizontal crack around the circumference of the head,” — said the press service. In addition, during the fall affected not only the bust but also a column of the gallery. To pay for the restoration of works of art have the parents of the child.
the Museum-reserve concluded that in the past year in the Cameron gallery was already a similar case: a schoolboy, who came in the Catherine Park, along with classmates, dropped the bust of Alcibiades.
Bust of a dying giant was made from the ancient original by master Admom Gastly in 1794 in Saint-Petersburg Academy of arts.
