Medvedev outdoes Putin in the artistic department
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January 18, 2010, Monday
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RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev has outdone his powerful predecessor - as an artist.
A photograph Medvedev took of the kremlin, or fortress, in a Siberian town sold for 51 million rubles (US$1.7 million) at a charity auction on Saturday night, surpassing the 37 million rubles paid last year for a painting by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Medvedev's black-and-white photo was bought by Mikhail Zingarevich, a board member at Ilim Group, the pulp and paper company where Medvedev once worked as a lawyer.
Proceeds of the auction will go to buy furniture for World War II veterans receiving long-promised apartments, equipment for a children's hospital and a new kitchen for an alcohol rehabilitation center.
The auction, which includes artwork by Russian politicians, athletes and cultural figures, raised 81.5 million rubles.
Putin, who passed the presidency to Medvedev two years ago, last year donated a painting of a frost-rimmed window in a traditional wooden hut.
Medvedev, an avid photographer, also chose a scene steeped in Russian tradition,
His photograph, taken from the air, shows the white stone walls and towers of the kremlin in Tobolsk.
The town is known as one of the final homes of Russia's last czar and his family during the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
A photograph Medvedev took of the kremlin, or fortress, in a Siberian town sold for 51 million rubles (US$1.7 million) at a charity auction on Saturday night, surpassing the 37 million rubles paid last year for a painting by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Medvedev's black-and-white photo was bought by Mikhail Zingarevich, a board member at Ilim Group, the pulp and paper company where Medvedev once worked as a lawyer.
Proceeds of the auction will go to buy furniture for World War II veterans receiving long-promised apartments, equipment for a children's hospital and a new kitchen for an alcohol rehabilitation center.
The auction, which includes artwork by Russian politicians, athletes and cultural figures, raised 81.5 million rubles.
Putin, who passed the presidency to Medvedev two years ago, last year donated a painting of a frost-rimmed window in a traditional wooden hut.
Medvedev, an avid photographer, also chose a scene steeped in Russian tradition,
His photograph, taken from the air, shows the white stone walls and towers of the kremlin in Tobolsk.
The town is known as one of the final homes of Russia's last czar and his family during the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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