The Director of the Pushkin Museum commented on the claim of Poland to a series of paintings
The claim of Poland to a number of works of art, both in the Pushkin Museum, unfounded, about It said in a broadcast on NSN, head of the State Museum of fine arts of a name of Pushkin Irina Antonova.
in her expressions, in the case of complaints from Warsaw is obliged to enter accurate address appeal, which painting and the author of from a Polish Museum disappeared, and in which the Russian Museum, according to Poland, it turned out. Antonov said that as long as such letters have been received, therefore, all the claims of Poland are groundless.
before in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Poland told about the rights to a number of art objects in the Russian Federation. A letter about It was published on the official page of the office's Twitter on January 18.
the list includes paintings: "Madonna Glogowski" by Lucas Cranach the Elder, "Madonna and child with parrot in landscape" by an unknown artist of the XVI century "Girl with a dove" by Antoine Peng, "the poultry yard" by Daniel Schultz, "Portrait of Johann von Swarzwald" Hans Holbein, "Forest landscape" by Jan Brueghel the Elder, "a Diptych of winter fields" the Dutch painter of the XV century.
Acting Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky, for his part, said that the question of return of cultural values to the Russian Federation is not displaced in implementation of compensatory restitution of objects of art are the property of the country.
This is the Message of the Polish foreign Ministry has followed after the beginning of the discussion in connection with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw from the Nazis by the red army on 17 January 1945. Poland at the official level did not mark the occasion by saying that the red army did not release the Polish capital from the Nazis, and again occupied it.
Russian politicians and the foreign Ministry staff called the position of the Polish foreign Ministry trying to rewrite history in favor of anti-Russian sentiments of the local elites.
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