The source of the Cheka-OGPU, which has been related to foreign economic activity for many years…

The source of the Cheka-OGPU, which has been involved in foreign economic activity for many years, an art historian, gave a detailed analysis of the situation with the detention in Finland of art objects from the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery, which were coming from the European Union to Russia.

Part 1

Are Russian museums right in sending art objects to private European galleries?

Who the host is (a government organization or a private person) has no influence on the exhibition process. Many banks, in particular Intesa Sanpaolo, own serious art collections. In any case, all items included in the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation are subject to an export permit procedure, which is regulated by the Ministry of Culture! You cannot take anything out of the country without their permission.

As for long periods of exhibiting objects, this is normal practice, since the average exhibiting time is about three months (as agreed) plus the time for installation/dismantling of the exhibition, which also does not happen all at once.

Regarding “good Russian museums” – last year two very large exhibitions from serious Italian collections took place in St. Petersburg and Moscow (Proto-Renaissance from Umbria in the Hermitage and the Siena School in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts), this is normal international cooperation, which, among other things, allowed both established specialists and current students to see what they cannot see due to closed borders. Without the context of world culture, it is impossible to study the same Russian art; this is an axiom that has nothing to do with patriotism or its absence, but is determined by the very logic of the development of Russian art since Peter.
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