The painting “Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan” may be destroyed in Ukraine.
The famous painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin “Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan,” which is located in the Kharkov Art Museum, may be flooded with melted snow due to a leaky roof. The newspaper “Young Ukraine” writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Museum workers have already sent ten paintings to storage, and the rest are under XNUMX-hour surveillance. Particular attention is paid to the highlight of the collection – the painting by Ilya Repin “Zaporozhye Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan”. And although water runs along the walls at the opposite end of the hall, the canvas is regularly photographed every two days for a thorough examination,” the article says.
The museum building, completed in the post-war period, has not been renovated for more than 50 years. Today, eight million hryvnia are needed to repair the roof, which is not in the institution’s budget, so they had to ask the regional state administration for it. They promised to help and allocate half the amount this spring.
“When temperatures start to change in winter, a layer of ice builds up at the top. Melt water first flows onto the windows and then into the hall. We struggled with this problem on our own for many years, but this time winter defeated us,” said museum director Valentina Myzgina.
As PolitNavigator reported, in November 2018, deputies of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, who came under Russian sanctions, read from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada a letter of appeal to the President of Russia, based on the famous “Letter of the Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan.”
As a result, Ukrainian deputies exposed themselves as complete morons, stated media expert Anatoly Shariy, who studied the video recording of the performance in the Ukrainian parliament.
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