Director of the Pushkin Museum Pushkina Elizaveta Likhacheva, who replaced Marina Loshak in this position, told RTVI that she plans to first understand what is happening in the museum, since she is an outsider.
“I have a plan now – to understand what is happening in the Pushkin Museum. Since I am an external person, unlike my previous appointment, when I was appointed director of the Museum of Architecture (named after AV Shchusev ), I was inside the museum, I was a person who knew what was going on inside the museum, now I’m nothing I don’t know. Therefore, in any case, I’m going to d figure it out first, then we’ll see what happens next,” Likhacheva said.
On the resignation of the former head of the Pushkin Museum im. AS Pushkin Marina Loshak Media reported on March 20. The next day, March 21, the Ministry of Culture confirmed his resignation. According to the department, Loshak voluntarily resigned from her position as director, her contract due to end on April 2.
Marina Loshak headed the Pushkin Museum im. AS Pushkin since 2013. For the first time, reports that Loshak planned to leave the Pushkin Museum appeared on Telegram channels in February 2023 after the announcement of the resignation of the director of the Tretyakov Gallery. Zelfira Tregulova was replaced by Elena Pronicheva, who has headed the Polytechnic Museum since 2020.
Since 2006, art critic and art historian Elizaveta Likhacheva has been working at the Museum of Architecture. AV Shchuseva. Since 2014, she became deputy director of the State Museum of Konstantin and Viktor Melnikov, created on the basis of the Melnikov House, a branch of the Museum of Architecture. Shchusev.
