“This was confirmed to me by his personal assistant. There are people who contacted his family, there are people who spoke with the director of the museum. Unfortunately, there is no doubt, he died, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Mikhail Abramov began collecting icons in the early 2000s. Later he opened the first private Museum of Russian Icon.

Earlier, the Russian embassy reported the death of two Russians in the fall of a helicopter near the Greek island of Poros.