INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian art critic Nina Moleva has died at age 98, bequeathing a mysterious collection of works she claimed to be worth $2 billion to
apartment in central Moscow under 24-hour security.She had claimed that the Paris-based auction house Hotel Drouot valued the collection at
and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts refused to accept the collection when she initially tried to donate it.Moleva then planned to bequeath
avant-garde artist Ely Belyutin, may have collected and dealt art for Soviet leaders.Another theory is that Belyutin, who was rumored to
Belyutin won the right to move back into three of the rooms in what was originally a 12-room apartment, where they claimed to have found the
hidden trove of art in a fake attic, just where their ancestor supposedly left it.
