Fleeing from Kherson, the Russians robbed Kherson museums. The invaders took the most valuable exhibits from the art and local history museums. In total, up to 90% of the collections of both institutions were stolen.
Marauders stole the entire collection of gold jewelry, awards, weapons, as well as other valuable exhibits of past centuries in the local history museum, Grunt reports. The Russians were not interested in the collection of the Natural History Department.
The Russians stole paintings from the art museum dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. These are the works of both Russian and Ukrainian artists from Kherson, Odessa, Kyiv and other cities. Here the occupiers did not steal only large canvases in the style of socialist realism. The Soviet legacy that Russians love so much turned out to be unnecessary for them.
Earlier it was reported that the Russians took out the museum property, calling it an evacuation to save art treasures.
The occupiers took out exhibits and office equipment by trucks and buses for four days. They were supposed to go to the Crimea, but this may be the last destination. Later, some paintings were seen in Simferopol.
The terrible scale of the Russian robbery was seen with my own eyes by the Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko, who came to Kherson on November 19.
The Oleksiy Shovkunenko Regional Museum for a full-scale Russian invasion is one of the best museums in Ukraine. Now the institution is almost empty – the Russians stole 80% of the collection from here. These are unique and valuable works, and some of them were not found anywhere else in the world.
The regional museum of local lore meets people with empty stands. He, too, was not spared by the Russian barbarians. The most valuable exhibits were stolen from the museum, exhibition weapons and precious metals were stolen most of all.
Source: Racurs
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