MOSCOW, March 21 Natalya Shashkova is an ideal candidate for the post of director of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, she will be able to keep the team, said the new director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Elizaveta Likhacheva, adding that she herself proposed her candidacy.
Likhacheva, who served as director of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, was appointed general director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts on Tuesday. The Museum of Architecture was headed by Natalya Shashkova.
«This is my colleague, I asked her to appoint her to this position, because Natalya Olegovna, firstly, is an outstanding museum worker,» the agency's interlocutor said.
Likhacheva stressed that Shashkova would be able to keep the staff and the team of the museum. “I worked in this museum for 17 years, and it is very important for me that the museum continues to develop, that everything goes according to this plan. Natalya Olegovna is an ideal candidate for the post of director of the museum of architecture,” concluded Likhacheva.
Natalya Shashkova graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Culture with a degree in Cultural Studies in 2001. Since 2017 she has been working at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture. In recent years, she has held the position of deputy director for accounting and storage work — the main curator of the museum. /ria.ru/20230321/likhacheva-1859465430.html» data-title='Elizaveta Likhacheva: «I can't imagine what's going on in the Pushkin Museum»'>