11.   Property confiscated includes stately homes and priceless art treasures, many of which have turned up in Moscow.

12.   The story involves a priceless art collection, a regal Tuscan villa, an alleged love affair and the exhumation of a long-buried body.

13.   But the trip will be clouded by an ongoing row over the priceless art works, which has soured otherwise close ties between Moscow and Bonn.