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Ivan The Terrible Painting Stolen In World War II Found At Ridgefield Home Ivan The Terrible Painting Stolen In World War II Found At Ridgefield Home
Ivan The Terrible Painting Stolen In World War II Found At Ridgefield Home A 107-year-old painting of Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible that was stolen from an art museum in Ukraine during World War II will be returned to its homeland after it was discovered at an area residence where it had been for decades. Mikhail Panin's painting, called Secret Departure Of Ivan The Terrible Before The Oprichnina, was part of the permanent collection of the museum in Dnipro, U.S. attorney's office prosecutors said, according to Radio Free Europe. An American couple inherited the painting when they bought a home in Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1961 from a former memb…

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