Yaroslav Levchenko Department of the President of Russia, which is Constantin Palace, in Strelna, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He held another solo exhibition at the external branch of the State Hermitage Museum, the Hermitage-Vyborg Centre (2011–2012). Nine of his works are in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. His works also appear in the National Congress Palace Museum St. Petersburg, Russia, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, the Vyborg castle State Museum, the Russian Academy of Fine arts, St. Petersburg and the World Expo Museum Shanghai, China. In 1989, he moved to Tokyo, Japan with his parents from the USSR. In 1999,
Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings were made in the same period, notably the Codex Siniaticus from the Russian National Library, sold in 1933 to the British Museum (after 1973 British Library) for £100,000 raised by public subscription (worth £ in 2019), and "The Night Café" by Vincent van Gogh. In the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Parliament of the Russian Federation passed a new law prohibiting the sale of Russian art treasures to foreign countries. For many years the National Gallery was reluctant to lend the paintings it had bought from the Hermitage back to that Museum, for fear that the