RBC: Director of the Pushkin Museum Marina Loshak wrote a letter of resignation

Director of the State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkina Marina Loshak, whose contract expires on April 2, today, March 20, wrote a letter of resignation of her own free will. About it RBC said a source in the industry, confirmed by an employee of one of the major galleries and wrote several Telegram channels.

On February 13, after a report by journalist Alexei Venediktov (recognised as a foreign agent) in his Telegram channel about the departure of Ms. Loshak from her post, she denied this. Then Marina Loshak announced that she would continue to hold her position until the expiration of her work contract in April 2023.

She has been the head of the Pushkin Museum since 2013. RBC sources named her successor Elizaveta Likhacheva, who since 2017 has been in charge of the Museum of Architecture. Shchusev.

Maria Fedotova