Irina antonova pushkin museum reviews
The book was printed in Russia and the quality of the colour photos was quite poor..
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Pushkin Museum director on restitution: “We don’t owe anybody anything”
As director of the Pushkin Museum, I am naturally particularly sensitive to the problems it faces. In 1945, having completed my university education, I began working at the Fine Art Museum and was directly involved with receiving the collections that were handed over to us.
We did not take these collections away from anybody, nor did we steal them; we were told it was our duty to look after them and we have honoured that duty.
If you ask me what lies at the heart of the problem of returning the cultural valuables, I would say that it is to define their legal status.
These have been described as stolen goods, the spoils of war, trophy items and goodness knows what else.
Irina Antonova, who has died at the age of 98, spent more than half a century as director of the renowned Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.Furthermore, defining their legal status is not the job of libraries, museums and archives but of the government. The government ought to make a clear statement on the ownership of these works of art, now, in 1994. For years, I have been trying