MOSCOW, March 21 Marina Loshak, who headed the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (GMII) for about ten years, resigned as director of her own free will, her place will be taken by Elizaveta Likhacheva, the press service of the Ministry of Culture reported.
«On March 20, Marina Loshak voluntarily resigned from the post of director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, which she had held since 2013,» the press release says.
The department noted that during this time the leading Russian museum of Western European art was in continuous development. More than 60 Russian and international exhibition projects have been launched under Loshak's leadership.
Officially, her contract ends on April 2nd. Subsequently, the art critic will continue to do projects with the Pushkin Museum.
Loshak has served as director of the Pushkin Museum since July 1, 2013. As director, she replaced Irina Antonova, a world-famous art historian, specialist in Italian Renaissance painting.
Elizaveta Likhacheva will become the new head of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The corresponding order was signed by the Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova.
The department noted that Likhacheva had previously worked at the Shchusev State Research Museum of Architecture, which she had been in charge of since 2017. According to a press release, since she took over as director, «the museum's attendance has quadrupled, from 27,000 to 110,000 people.»
The ministry singled out her work as one of Likhacheva's most striking projects in the Melnikov House, the mansion of the outstanding Soviet architect Konstantin Melnikov. /tretyakovka-1850749056.html» data-title=»The head of the Tretyakov Gallery Tregulova left her post»>