I knew that meant they would take me to the basement, a place from where there was a danger of floating down the Dnipro.” says Dotsenko. “Accusing me of acting disrespectfully to the authorities, who of course were going to be here forever, they summoned me to the Prosecutor’s Office the following day.
“They told us that they had come to liberate us from the radical nationalists and they asked me why I did not follow the example of my colleague, the director of the Regional Museum, who had received them with a bouquet of flowers and voluntarily handed over her collection. I also told them that I did not want to associate with the occupation authorities. I explained to them that the museum had been closed for repairs and that the objects from our collection were no longer there. “On May 4, they called me and proposed setting up an exhibition for May 9, to coincide with Victory Day. Our collection was packed and stored in a special locked storage room, which was inside the building,” Dotsenko explains. “When the Russian troops arrived, the museum was closed because we were carrying out restoration work. “The Russians came back later, dressed in civilian clothes, but armed,” adds the director, who this week is embarking on a trip to Kherson to review the state of the museum now that Moscow’s forces have withdrawn from the city. We lied to them by saying that our collection had been evacuated and for two months we managed to keep them at bay,” Dotsenko told EL PAÍS from Kyiv. They came to the museum but initially they did not touch anything. “ The Russians entered Kherson on March 1. Similar stories have emerged from other areas that have been occupied by Russian troops: some point to destruction and some to plunder, and at times to the sensation that behind the façade of the former the latter may be hidden. This has been confirmed to EL PAÍS by Alina Dotsenko, director of the Kherson Art Museum, which along with the Kherson Regional Museum was looted by the departing troops. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Before leaving the Ukrainian city of Kherson, occupying Russian forces loaded up priceless works belonging to the city’s two main museums and, in an orderly manner, carted them away in trucks and buses in the direction of Crimea.Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec Famous Paintings Since 1990, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky. The Hermitage is a federal state property. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya, and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building also make part of the museum. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise nearly 3 million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and open to the public since 1852. The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture situated in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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