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Elgin Marbles: British Museum loans statue to Russia
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A headless depiction of the river god Ilissos has been sent to Russia to go on display in St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum until mid-January. It is one of a number of relics acquired by Lord Elgin in Athens in the early 19th Century, now known ...
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