Director of the National Museum of Fine Arts (GMII) them. AS. Pushkin will be Elizaveta Likhacheva, who since 2017 has headed the Museum of Architecture named after AV Shchusev, transmits RBC. Earlier, the publication, citing an “industry source”, reported that the current director of the Pushkin Museum, Marina Loshak, wrote a resignation letter of her own free will.
Likhacheva told RTVI that her contract at the Shchusev museum expires on March 21, but the appointment of the director of the Pushkin museum im. She knows nothing about Pushkin.
“I haven’t seen any other contracts, I haven’t seen the order either. As soon as I see it, I’ll give all the feedback,” she explained.
Elizaveta Likhacheva is a Russian museum worker, art critic and art historian. In 2006, then director of the Museum of Architecture. Shchusev David Sargsyan invited her to work. With its help, in particular, an inventory of the photo catalog was created, which greatly simplified the work of visitors with the archive. In addition, Likhacheva actively participated in the development and approval of rules for working with the museum’s collection.
In 2010-2012, she was responsible for the scientific department for the popularization of architecture, she was engaged in educational and scientific activities, creating excursion materials for all exhibitions and participating in the arrangement of routes in the city.
In 2014, Likhacheva became deputy director of the State Museum of Konstantin and Viktor Melnikov (a branch of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture) created on the basis of the Melnikov House and led the process of museumification of the Melnikov House.
On the evening of March 20, RBC reported that the director of the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkina Marina Loshak wrote a resignation letter of her own free will. Information about his departure was confirmed by an employee of one of the Moscow art galleries. In mid-February, reports about Loshak’s departure had already been published, but she herself denied them, noting that her employment contract would not expire until April 2.
Marina Loshak is considered one of the main curators of the Russian avant-garde. Since 2007 she has been the co-owner and artistic director of the Proun Gallery in Winzavod. Loshak has been the head of the Pushkin Museum since 2013, and before that she worked as the artistic director of the Moscow Manege Museum and Exhibition Association.
On February 13, Aleksey Venediktov* wrote on the Telegram channel that Marina Loshak was leaving her post. He quoted the words said to have been spoken by the director of the Pushkin Museum:
“For personal reasons, I am leaving of director of the National Museum of Fine Arts. AS Pushkin. I am grateful to everyone who has collaborated with us all these years and helped to realize brilliant exhibition projects.
Subsequently, Venediktov deleted this message and published a new one, in which he stated that “the voluntary resignation of Marina Loshak has not been confirmed”.
Information about his dismissal refuted and the official Telegram channel of the Pushkin Museum. “The words in quotes are not a quote and were not spoken by MD Lochak. Her contract expires on April 2 this year, until that date she continues to perform her duties,” the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts said in a statement.
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