Opening of the Pushkin Museum in Martigny, Switzerland

[nikolai nesterenko]

June 19, opens exhibition of masterpieces of the Pushkin Museum in Martigny, Switzerland, near Lausanne. This joy Europeans happy Fund Leonard Dzhannada (Gazeta.ru, 17.06.09, Article N. Gevorgyan http://www.gazeta.ru/column/gevorkyan/3212416.shtml). The direct heirs of the founders of the collection I. Morozov and Shchukin pointedly not invited!

[Glasha]

And perhaps this permanent director even (!) Hang, sooner or later, next to the picture mention of the man who was able with great taste and fantastic intuition to gather a collection of unknown when Western artists, some of whom wrote their masterpieces under the direct order collector. And, you know, in our museums can be found plaques with the names of those who made a donation to the museum, for example, in 2002, or plate with gratitude to those who gave money to repair the hall in such a museum. And the names of two remarkable collectors hand does not rise to write?

Forget that Shchukin, under the first testament of 1907, after the death of his first wife, and so told me to give a collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, and only in 1926, is understood all about the "new government", changed his will in favor of his second wife and children. Forget that his collection without nationalization was discovered in his house to visit for people that have actually lived already in the museum mode. Let's forget about the humiliations suffered by Shchukin after the nationalization of the collection. "He tolerated it when the gallery was nationalized, and his appointed deputy keeper; stand it when I had to drive excursions. Not hold only when the Commissioner called "move down" in their own house "- from an article by Natalia Semenova. Forget, finally, that Shchukin's grandson Andre-Marc has already passed the post-Soviet Russia of the past, the grandfather had acquired in exile. Do not sell, note, and handed over, as if this man is very modest means. What was awarded ... permanent pass to the Pushkin Museum. This appreciation was limited. Leave aside that Ivan Morozov, had not survived the loss of collections, and died in 50 years, the summer of 1921.

And British journalists feel embarrassed in front of these two an elderly people who are forced into the developed capitalist countries to talk about that in those countries considered to be unshakable - the right to inheritance, or even to recognize, or at least respect. Or at least a plaque with the names of their grandfather and great-grandfather next to the pictures, which note, they did not ask the Russian museums back. Moreover, when four years ago, Mr. Dzhannada gave the same show that tried to arrest the company "Noga" in ascertaining the state of relations with Russia, the heir Shchukin Andre-Marc was categorically opposed to such actions, "Feet" and is ready to side with Russia and the master Dzhannada.

Frankly, never paid no attention to this fact, once there, and dropping to the painting, but did not go for so little (in the rest not suyus) to restore historical justice and a tribute?