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World Champions presented with wine decorated by masterpieces of Russian painters

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World Champions presented with wine decorated by masterpieces of Russian painters


17.07.2018

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Winners of the FIFA World Cup-2018 got another present apart from the main trophy of the tournament, according to Russian Newspaper. The present was made by Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The French footballers got 25 boxes of wine produced in Bordeaux. The labels of the bottles are decorated with paintings by Russian and Soviet painters.

Participants of the project are Art Russe Foundation and Sant-Emilion Grand Cru wine plant. For several years annually specialists were choosing 12 works of art out of the foundation collection which later appeard at the labels of Château La Grace Dieu Des Prieurs. They used paintings by Vasnetsov, Repin, Serov, Roerich and others. Thanks to the design, the wine set of Art Russe gained its popularity. Its price amounts to almost 1500 US dollars. 

According to representative of the Chamber Andrey Filatov, the national team of France has won the World Cup by right. The team showed high-class, brilliant and professional football.

Note that the French left behind their rivals from Croatia with a score of 4:2 at the finals of the FIFA World Cup-2018.

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