Russian Culture as a Casualty (and Accomplice) of Putin’s War in Ukraine Nina Rozhanovskaya: Sophia Kishkovsky:

We are going to discuss how the Russian arts and culture react to this domestic pressure and to the war in Ukraine and examine how the relationship between the artist and the state is being redefined. [...] NR: But going back to Tregulova, the head of the Tretyakov Gallery, that's one of the key Russian museums, one of the biggest collections, they have the section that deals with everything that goes up to the Russian Revolution, and then they have the huge collection of Russian 20th century art. [...] And he did, in the end, finally announce that he was leaving the Hermitage, the country, that he is against the war and cannot work in these conditions. [...] The famous one was where the wife of one of the prison directors, she was very proud of all of the cultural figures that she had at her beck and call. [...] And they can share the story of how to deal with the trauma of being the witness or the victim of a huge historical tragedy.