A Russian museum revealed Thursday that

one of its security guards

damaged a 20th-century avant-garde painting by

drawing eyes on the work

of a student of legendary Suprematist master Kasimir Malevitch.

The incident occurred in December 2021 and affected a

work by Anna Leporskaia,

a painter and decorator from the last century, exhibited at the

Yeltsin center in Yekaterinburg

, a large Ural city.

Entitled

"The Three Figures,"

this work from the 1930s, insured for 75 million rubles (880,000 euros), depicts faceless characters, on two of whom the guard drew eyes with a ballpoint pen.

The director of the Yeltsin center, Alexandre Drozdov, told a meeting on Monday that the person who did the damage was an

"employee of a private security company"

with whom the museum had a contract.

The painting was sent to Moscow, where it was restored.

The security agent, who was serving his first day of work at the site and was

accused of "hooliganism"

, can be sentenced to a fine and up to three months in jail.

The Yeltsin Center is named after the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who led the country from 1991 to 1999.

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