Grigory Zaslavsky
Russia - Germany - Baldin - Collection
"Baldin collection": an exhibition to be held in any weather
"RUSSIA - GERMANY - BALDIN - COLLECTION - announce the news what happened in the month of March a lot. The captain of artillery and an architect by profession Viktor Baldin, probably, and could not have imagined that someday his name will do so now "senior" context. And maybe that is what he hoped, when a year had sent their first treatment Brezhnev, Suslov, then, Ligachev, Gorbachev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and each requested during the next Summit to transmit pictures of the GDR or the FRG, which was rescued from imminent death at the end of the war.
Today the future transfer to the Bremen Museum of so-called Baldin collection "does not argue otherwise how will the performance front. From 13 to 29 March the tone and direction of thought very Russian statesmen have undergone major changes. Changed and the route the collection itself. First, because of the St. Petersburg 362 drawing and two paintings in Moscow were supposed to go to Bremen. The show was already scheduled for March 29. Then, after the speech Nikolai Gubenko and State Duma deputies who voted against the donation of collections in Germany, packed boxes stayed in the vault of the Ministry of Culture. And then decided not to postpone the date of the exhibition, but the very exhibition to be held in the Museum of Architecture, where the drawings were transferred Viktor Baldin in 1947 and where they were kept secret until 1991.
In the end, satisfied with everything. And even the German side did not make any criticism of the current situation of the collection and change themselves, and the opening of the exhibition was to be found the whole delegation from the Embassy of Germany in Moscow. And without exception, they say, if it is such a turn of events is the most desirable: and Mikhail Shvydkoi, and Nikolai Gubenko (although the mutual insults and remained unresolved). And the director of the Museum of Architecture, David Sarkisian, who a week ago announced its intention to ask for a "dignified compensation" for decades, collections storage: the need to transfer the museum under the management of the Ministry of Culture (now he is in charge of State Construction Committee) at the opening ceremony, Minister of Culture spoke very clearly and presumably, he will decide this question in the near future. Satisfied and the audience.
Would like to think that the incident will cause Baldin collection and the German side to change the current hard-edged rhetoric. And, more importantly, increase, I apologize for some sloppy style, the cost of treatment to the return of displaced values, which differs in recent years, Russia's position. During this culture minister could say thank you to the head of the division of the State Duma, the more so in the present scenario, their public statements have not quite distinguishable from one another.
Published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta on 01.04.2003
Source:
http://www.ng.ru/accent/2003-04-01/7_baldin.html