No one can cancel Russian culture, and this trend should not be exaggerated. This opinion was expressed by Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the Museum of the State Hermitage, head of the Union of Museums of Russia. TASS.
“There is no need to exaggerate the abolition of Russian culture: no one can cancel it, we are not weak enough to be abolished,” Piotrovsky added, adding that in this way they wanted to “just push Russia aside.”
He recalled that in 2022 alone, Russian museums brought back about 15-20 exhibits from around the world “glorifying Russia.” According to him, there are now “challenges to culture in general” in the world.
“When they say that museums are ‘booty warehouses’, that things in museums are not created for museums,” Piotrovsky noted, the tendency to “deny the role of museums” is also observed to some extent. In Russia.
The General Manager of the Hermitage also called it the “harmful and evil principle” that culture belongs to only one person.
“Culture belongs to the whole world, then it makes sense,” he concluded.
Konstantin Chudovsky, formerly Chief Conductor of the revived State Kremlin Orchestra saidHe said that he did not harbor any hostility towards his compatriots and Russian culture by working in different countries of the world.