The Most Valuable Items Stolen In This Year

The Russian landscape painting worth $1 million (£776.8k)

One of this year's most brazen art thefts, this January a man walked into Moscow's New Tretyakov Gallery in Russia when it was teeming with visitors, lifted a landscape painting by esteemed artist Arkhip Kuindzhi off the wall, and walked straight out. A witness later said that they had thought that the thief worked at the museum. It took 12 hours, but police managed to find the 31-year-old suspect who was later jailed for three years.