Since childhood, I remember, forgive the banality of the "wonderful feeling" of touching something magical. The city had just been rebuilt after a terrible earthquake (more than 100 thousand dead), and the masterpieces of Bryullov, Kuindzhi, Ge, little Flemings and ... yes, Burliuk shone in the museum! Then I didn't think about where it came from. And now I have already written about the sale of masterpieces of the Hermitage abroad (stopped by the way by Joseph Vissarionovich), but there were just gifts! In the 30-40s, fine art museums were created in the Soviet republics. Dozens were TRANSMITTED to each of them (probably hundreds, thousands?! 😢) paintings from the storerooms of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage, and the Narkompros funds. Today there are wonderful museums in Tashkent (based on the collection of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich), in Frunze (Borovikovsky, Aivazovsky, Vrubel, etc.), in Ashgabat (I will say separately), in Baku (masterpieces of the Renaissance!) and in Yerevan, in Georgia, and even in Riga and Ukraine (Lviv), something was transmitted (article by Tatyana Mokina!). For Ashgabat, they deserve separate words: Karl Bryullov - "Venetian Noon" (author's copy) is one of his best paintings! Nikolai Ge - "Peter the Great interrogates his son" (author's copy) - Stasov said about it - "This painting is one of the Russian jewels, along with the best historical paintings of Western art" In what! 🙄, Roerich - SOFTWARE! The work "Arrows of the sky, spears of the earth". Who saw it? Nobody! A poor reproduction on the net... Kuindzhi - "Winter night" with a "light bulb" moon! Daineko is a "Red-winged Giant". Daineko is a deeply respected artist by me for the BEST picture about the WAR - "Defense of Sevastopol" Light forces against the darkness of fascism... You can casually admire its wonderful ceiling lights at the Mayakovskaya metro station. In besieged Leningrad, his mosaics were being prepared for the Donbass station... That there is no such thing? So she is not Paveletskaya, but miraculously preserved ones can be seen on Novokuznetsk... Well, something like that. To talk about who has "corals and clarinet".

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