Противостояние ГМВ и МЦР из-за картин Рериха
Public letter
According to the judgment of Khamovnicheskiy district court 286 Nicholas and Svetoslav Roerich’s pictures are taken out of the State Museum Fund of Russian Federation in order to be given to the public (i.e. private) museum attached to the International Roerich’s Center (IRC). According to all of the legal papers the judgment is extralegal. Roerichs’ paintings are now kept in the State Eastern museum. The formulation of the judgment – by right of “testamentary documents”. According to the laws of Russian Federation this can’t be considered as a testament. A lot of judiciaries concerning this theme are initiated by the Soviet Roerichs’ Fund (SRF) that has later become IRC. These judiciaries have reached the same decision for more than last 20 years – according to Russian legal system legally IRC can’t be considered as a cessionary of SRF, and SRF’s so- called “testamentary documents” can’t be considered as a testament or a grant. Besides IRC is an absolutely new organization with another regulations and founding members. All law cases were summed up by the decision of Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court in 1993. The same decision has been reached by the Court of Khamovnicheskiy district. So what has changed? Has more money been paid? Ministry of Cultural Affairs headed by A. Avdeev hasn’t protected the state property and hasn’t even been as the other party in a panel session in the court. M. Shvidkoy being the minister of cultural affairs has done his best in the process of protection of the museum and the state property. Avdeev (on the recommendation of Vorontsov who is the president of IRC, and being an USSR ambassador in France during distant previous years) has come to the Ministry as a supporter of IRC. Coming into the Ministry of Cultural Affairs again and again he has promised to the chiefs of IRC to do his best in order to grab Roerichs’ paintings from the Eastern Museum and to give them to this public organization. Finishing his continuance in office of the Minister of Cultural Affairs (he has shortened it willingly) Avdeev has in fact fulfilled his promise. It has been said much on different levels that he is going to take a stand of the IRC President. This message has appeared on different Internet-sites. Probably he has been awarded a very interesting suggestion to become a Russian Federation ambassador in Vatican, because of the evident indecency of such an exchange (I give you the pictures, and you give me a fat office). The director’s office of the Eastern Museum can’t lodge an objection in the Prosecutor’s office, since it’s not even the third person party in such case and with such a position of Ministry of Cultural Affairs. More than that, all court decisions has been covered up from the museum officers in order not to be expostulated. The director’s office and the officers of the Eastern Museum being subordinated to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs are under a treat of dismissal in case of information giving. The national property at the cost of $0.5 billion being a part of the State Museum Fund of Russian Federation is now being given to the public museum which has a right to do with the pictures whatever it want – to sell, to exchange, to hide from people. One can say that this won’t be, but the society doesn’t get enough information. More than that, the index of “responsibility” of IRC is a real lie. IRC pretending to be a spiritual leader, but using illegal methods in achieving its aims expresses its spiritual impoverishment. The pictures in IRC haven’t been checked by competent organizations. There are facts of restoration rules’ violation, led lamps, blind bins destructing the coating of tempera. This contradicts with normal museum conditions. Previously IRC has “beaten back” from the Eastern Museum a building in the center of Moscow. IRC has also canceled the decision “about the building of Roerich’s Museum” of the Council of Ministers signed by Chernomyrdin. The Eastern Museum runs regular exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Now the officers of the Eastern Museum have received order of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs committee on checking of the existence of the fund. The documents must be prepared before the 7th of March. IRC knows that in fact there are not 286 pictures in the Eastern Museum, but on purpose hand in this list. After that the warrant of pictures’ distress will be signed. Our strong request is to help in the existing situation.
Public letter
Since a variety of processes in modern world taking place in different countries are interconnected especially in this sphere, we see proper to apprise and to ask your Government/ Musum/Organisation/… not to be indifferent to extreme event in the sphere of culture of Russian Federation that concerns the whole world.
On November, 24th, 2011 Khamovnichesiy district court approved a plaint concerning Ministry of Cultural Affairs in a civil matter № 2-3191/10 upon the application on IRC about the establishment of the fact of the acceptance of the inheritance. We want to turn your attention to that flagrant fact that for the last 20 years a private museum has been striving for the right to posses the paintings of a great Russian artist and thinker, N. Reorich, and his son S. Reorich, whose works constitute the treasury of the World Culture. And now it gets the right to posses the state property. All actions of law for all these years with regard to this case concerning the State Eastern Museum (hereafter the SEM) has been expostulated, even by the federal court of Russian Federation. Nevertheless, the Russian Federation state in the Minister of Cultural Affairs, A. Avdeev’s face has contributed to the taking of this decision. By the way, this happened half of a month to go before the presidential elections in Russian Federation and two months to go before Avdeev’s dismissal from the office of the Minister of Cultural Affairs. In the near future the SEM must give to the private museum the collection of paintings in the amount of $0.5 billion! Such court decision is maximally concealed in order not to be noticed and brought to the fulfillment. If such legal crime has taken place in our country, we ask for your support to defend the legitimacy of rights of culture and not to allow such cases whenever they can happen. We ask you to submit a protest immediately by registered mails and direct it to the Government of Russian Federation – Moscow, Krasnopresnenskaya quay, 2. the address of Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Russian Federation: 125993, Moscow, Maliy Gnezndnikovskiy lane, 7/6, building 1. the address of Khamovnicheskiy court: 119121, Moscow, the 7th Rostovskiy lane, 21. The address for the underpinning to the paper of expostulation plaint (this address will be figured from those who will expostulate the decision): 119019, Moscow, Nikitinskiy boulevard, 12а, The State Eastern Museum.
On November, 24th, 2011 Khamovnichesiy district court approved a plaint concerning Ministry of Cultural Affairs in a civil matter № 2-3191/10 upon the application on IRC about the establishment of the fact of the acceptance of the inheritance. We want to turn your attention to that flagrant fact that for the last 20 years a private museum has been striving for the right to posses the paintings of a great Russian artist and thinker, N. Reorich, and his son S. Reorich, whose works constitute the treasury of the World Culture. And now it gets the right to posses the state property. All actions of law for all these years with regard to this case concerning the State Eastern Museum (hereafter the SEM) has been expostulated, even by the federal court of Russian Federation. Nevertheless, the Russian Federation state in the Minister of Cultural Affairs, A. Avdeev’s face has contributed to the taking of this decision. By the way, this happened half of a month to go before the presidential elections in Russian Federation and two months to go before Avdeev’s dismissal from the office of the Minister of Cultural Affairs. In the near future the SEM must give to the private museum the collection of paintings in the amount of $0.5 billion! Such court decision is maximally concealed in order not to be noticed and brought to the fulfillment. If such legal crime has taken place in our country, we ask for your support to defend the legitimacy of rights of culture and not to allow such cases whenever they can happen. We ask you to submit a protest immediately by registered mails and direct it to the Government of Russian Federation – Moscow, Krasnopresnenskaya quay, 2. the address of Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Russian Federation: 125993, Moscow, Maliy Gnezndnikovskiy lane, 7/6, building 1. the address of Khamovnicheskiy court: 119121, Moscow, the 7th Rostovskiy lane, 21. The address for the underpinning to the paper of expostulation plaint (this address will be figured from those who will expostulate the decision): 119019, Moscow, Nikitinskiy boulevard, 12а, The State Eastern Museum.