The Russian Museum will show 18 masterpieces at the exhibition "The Great Victory. Russia is my story"

The State Russian Museum will present 18 works of art at the exhibition "The Great Victory. Russia is my Story", which will be held at the Moscow Manege from November 4 to December 8. This was announced on October 28 by the general director of the museum, Alla Manilova, at a press conference dedicated to the event.

"The Russian Museum presents 18 masterpieces from its collection: <...> 17 paintings, these are all the masterpieces of our collection, mostly large—format, and one sculpture," she said.

According to Manilova, this sculpture will be the work of Mikhail Pereyaslavets "Blockade. Leningrad. Mother and child."

Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea, Chairman of the Patriarchal Council of the Russian Orthodox Church for Culture, in turn, pointed out the unique scale of the exhibition, calling it unprecedented.

"This will be the final anniversary year of the exhibition, but it is absolutely unprecedented. Such a volume of unique artifacts has never been collected," he stressed.

The exhibition will bring together more than 700 unique exhibits from 50 federal and departmental archives of Russia and Belarus, as well as private collections. Among the historical artifacts are the original Victory Banner, the German surrender act, and a draft of Joseph Stalin's message to Franklin Roosevelt criticizing the Allies' position on opening a second front. The special section "Ordinary Nazism" will contain documents about the crimes of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices.

The exhibition is organized with the support of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, the Federal Archival Agency, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Government of Moscow. The exhibition will cover the period from the Nazi invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941 to the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the general political discussion of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 27 that the Russian Federation sacredly honors the memory of military brotherhood in the fight against Nazism in Germany. According to Lavrov, celebrations dedicated to the festive dates of May 9 and September 3 in honor of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and World War II were held in Moscow and Beijing this year.

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