MOSCOW, June 10. Ukrainian propaganda is trying to erase Russian culture by passing it off as Ukrainian in countries loyal to the Kiev regime, Kathy Sedgwick, a contributor to The American Conservative magazine, said. who personally addresses the curators, even directing his 24,000 subscribers to mark museums on social networks with a request to make corrections,” Sedgwick noted. the family was originally from the Carpathians. However, Zinaida Serebryakova, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ivan Aivazovsky, Ilya Repin and other artists, none of whom identified themselves as Ukrainian, were also targeted.
In March, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York changed the caption to a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky «Ship in the moonlight», calling him an Armenian artist. The description of the work indicates that the author was an Armenian born in the Russian Empire, in the Crimean city of Feodosia, although the museum previously considered him a Ukrainian.