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MOSCOW: She has led Moscow's renowned Pushkin Museum for more than half a century, helped Russians discover the art of her friend Marc Chagall and battled to bring late impressionist art out of the vaults and into public view.
And at the age of 91, the doyenne of Russia's museum directors Irina Antonova shows no sign of letting up.
Her extraordinary career has seen her work under Kremlin chiefs from Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin and cross paths with some of the greatest names in 20th-century art.
Now Antonova has set herself the challenge of righting what she sees as a wrong wreaked by Stalin in 1948 when he ordered the dissolution of one of the world's finest museums of Impressionist and early modern Western art.
“No one else is going to do this. I was in this museum, I was present when it was dissolved,” Antonova, who has led the Pushkin Museum since being appointed under Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, told AFP in an interview.
Antonova sent a shockwave through Russia's usually staid museum world when she bluntly told Putin during his annual nationwide question-and-answer session that the museum should be recreated just as it was before Stalin's intervention.
All very well, but refounding the museum would mean taking away some of the most prized exhibits of
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Irina Antonova, who was director of the Pushkin for over 50 years, has died, aged 98
Irina Alexandrovna Antonova, the president of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, died yesterday evening at the age of 98, Marina Loshak, the museum’s director, told the Tass news agency. Russian news agencies, citing the museum’s press service, reported that she died of coronavirus (Covid-19) in addition to heart disease.
Her life at the museum spanned the second half of the 20th century. It began in 1945 under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as the Second World War was ending and the Red Army was seizing art from Nazi Germany—a significant portion of which was hidden in the Pushkin’s repositories until in re-emerged under her watch in the 1990s.
In 1961, she was appointed director of the museum, a position that she held until 2013 when she made a controversial appeal to President Vladimir Putin to reunite in Moscow the separated parts of the pre-revolutionary art collections of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. The collections had been nationalised by the Bolsheviks then divided between the Pushkin museum and the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. That vision was realised in a different form with an ongoing round of exhibitions that has brought together the separat