centuries,
with sweat and blood...
The palaces and mansions of the princes are now ours!
The rarity that I am transporting
in these boxes, art, is also ours!
- Hurray!
- Hurray!
Well sailor, make sure it gets there
Could you tell me, Comrade Director...
the approximate price of this
collection in gold rubles?
I couldn't even give you an approximate estimate.
This collection, built up by the Tikhvinski Princes...
Over almost two centuries, has practically no price.
It is priceless!
For instance, number 67... Penturiccio, Boy in Blue.
Come along, come along, come along. Come!
Here's what I'm talking about.
Penturiccio, Boy in Blue.
In 1582, the Duke of Milan paid for it with gold coins...
placed two deep over the
entire surface of the painting.
Penturiccio, Boy in Blue.
Would you be so kind as to open the fifth box.
This one. Only carefully, for God's sake, carefully!
Now you will see this masterpiece... Penturiccio!
This is a mistake! This can't be! It can't be!
Open another!
Open it! Open it! Open it! Quickly and carefully!
Witness statements regarding the case of the
theft of the collection of art treasures...
requisitioned from the former Prince Tikhvinski.
Chairman of the People's Commissariat
for the Possessions of the Republic, Kochin:
I went to the front...
and assigned the sailor Petrovych
to transport the collection to Petrograd.
Sailor Petrovych of the Cruiser 'Onega'.
I packed the boxes with my own hands,
and transported them myself to the museum.
Kuzavlyova, companion of the old Princess.
The princess fell ill, and I did not leave her bedside.
I cannot testify anything in this case.
Former Estate Manager Tarakanov.
I helped pack the collection in the boxes.
From the estate, the collection
was sent intact and preserved.
Carpenter Yegor Dmitrievitch Buketov.
They told me to knock some
boxes together, and I did so.
That's all we know,
we weren't interested after that.
Inspection of the estate
and townhouse of Prince Tikhvinski...
has yielded no results.
The case is closed, it must be assumed...
that the collection has been lost
forever for Soviet Russia!
We will burn all the bourgeoisie in a global fire!
- Fan the flames!
- Hurray! Hurray!
What's this? Let me past! Let me past!
Let me past, I tell you! What is this?
Let me past! What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Give me that! Give me that!
Give me that, take my life, money, everything!
Thieves! Robbery!
This is a picture from the Tikhvinski collection!
Some hooligans stole it from a passer-by.
We detained them.
It would have been better
if you'd detained the passer-by.
They say he was a weasly type
in dark glasses, wearing a bowler-hat.
So the collection's not lost.
I can't even imagine who to assign this case to.
We're talking about priceless works of art...
which could turn out to be abroad.
If you fail to catch a profiteer or two...
it won't be as harmful to Russia
as the loss of these treasures...
belonging to the people.
Who to assign this case to?
I have one new recruit, he's just been demobilised.
Of course, he doesn't have
any experience of our work yet.
But he's conscientious and bright.
He's also looking for works of art just now.
Bronze candlesticks were stolen
from a famous artist.
I'll try assigning him.
Makar Ovchinnikov.
But we have to start...
with a thorough inspection of the
country mansion of this prince.
So! You've searched the attic?
Yes, we've looked everywhere.
You've tapped the walls, looked in the cellar?
Yes, I tell you, we looked everywhere.
- I even put guards on the doors.
- You didn't look well enough.
Boxes can't disappear into the ground.
They're here somewhere.
Nothing.
You should interrogate the carpenter, Dmitrich.
He put the boxes together.
Maybe he knows something.
- You Dmitrich isn't here.
- What do you mean, not here?
They killed Dmitrich!
- Ours?
- No
- The Whites?
- No.
- Who?
- Bandits, Lagutin's lot.
Well, have