The Petersburger wants to sell to the Hermitage a 500-year ring for 500 million dollars

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The inhabitant Saint Petersburg decided to sell to the Hermitage the ancient Golden Ring with the ruby, allegedly made 500 years ago the pupil Michelangelo Italian master Benvenuto Cellini. According to him, jewelers estimated ornament at 500 million dollars (42,5 billion rubles). "I got a ring from my Armenian grandmother, and her from her grandmother. I know that my ancestors lived in the Polish city Zamosc. It was based by the chancellor and the richest person of the XVI century Zamoysky Ian. As the ring appeared in our family and especially as came to be to Russian Federation, I will not put mind" — he told "KP". The man reported that a gold ring with...