SAINT PETERSBURG — A French doctor has bequeathed 3,000 euros to celebrated cats that live in the basement of the Hermitage Museum, a world-renowned art gallery in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg.
“We received information (about the inheritance) this summer. At the moment the process of completing all the legal formalities is in the final stage,” the museum press service told AFP on Tuesday. The money was left by French doctor Christophe Batard, who died at the age of 51.
“Our French friend has done a remarkable thing… it is such a beautiful gesture,” Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky said on Monday.
He proposed the amount left to the cats be put towards improving …
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