Moscow: the Da Vinci Code on the Flight of Birds

The Pushkin Museum inaugurated an exhibition on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Code on the Flight of Birds”, one of the most exemplary of documents attesting to Italian artistic and inventive virtuosity. As Italian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Antonio Zanardi Landi pointed out, the manuscript was the protagonist of an interesting story that binds Italy to Russia: stolen by Napoleon from Milan’s Ambrosiana Library and taken to Paris, where it was once again stolen in the mid-19th century, the precious Code was subsequently bought in 1892 by Teodoro Sabasnikov, member of a wealthy Siberian merchant family, and given as a gift to King Umberto I of Italy in 1893, who then entrusted it to the Royal Library in Turin. Read more, in Italian.