Open letter to employees of the Tretyakov Gallery, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Avdeev had a few days ago, published in the official blog of the museum tretyakovblog in Live Journal. The letter expressed dissatisfaction with the leadership of the museum .
The letter was signed "a team of the State Tretyakov Gallery. The letter's authors have reported that
General Director Irina Lebedeva and her first deputy Oleg Belikov prepare the transfer of works of art from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery in private collections and museums. "For this purpose, contrary to the recommendations of the Ministry of Culture, Lebedev and Belikov prepare documents for the transformation of the Tretyakov Gallery of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise into an autonomous non-profit organization », - said in the letter. Employees of the gallery is also accused their leaders of corruption, this is an example of a string of charges: "A number of major contracts were actually executed only on paper, for example, a contract for the repair of the Corps was filled with nothing more than a half (almost all of the hidden works produced were not) and the money is paid in full, the acts signed ... contract for the repair of alarm systems in the Engineering Building was also carried out serious violations - signed a contract does not comply with the tender documentation and was executed in time. As a result the exhibition of French graphics held without signaling! "The letter writers are outraged that the recent state of the museum is replenished by former employees of the City Hall and the municipalities of Moscow - people who" refused to trust our president ". Construction of the new gallery building, according to her staff, in fact, thwarted, reports submitted to the Ministry of Culture - "Broken fiction." It is clear that the letter is addressed to Mr. Avdeev in the first place. In the last paragraph, the authors remind the minister that Ms Lebedeva - his appointee, and the Ministry of Culture commission that visited the gallery recently, worked as "superficial." Copies of the letter sent to the presidential administration and the General Prosecutor's Office.
Rita Rusakov
"Kommersant-Online", 18.03.2011
The letter itself can be read here:
http://tretyakovblog.livejournal.com/773.html