A source from the Source about the permanent heroine of our channel, now the former director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Elizaveta Likhacheva:
“The star of Elizaveta Likhacheva rose under Minister Medinsky, by whose order she was appointed to the post of director of the Federal Museum of Architecture, who at the age of 40 received an art history education in absentia, without any professional background, not a single publication, no scientific works, nothing… Likhacheva came to the Museum of Architecture from the Federal Migration Service, where she narrowly escaped criminal liability for financial fraud and forgery of documents… She is in the center loud scandal – with her own hand she threw out of Melnikov’s house his granddaughter, who did not want to release the monument transferred to the Museum of Architecture by businessman Sergei Gordeev. This was the beginning of her meteoric career. Because the philanthropist Gordeev went to Minister Medinsky and agreed that the museum of architecture would be removed from the Talyzin estate near the Kremlin walls beyond the Third Transport Ring, and the PIK company, owned by the philanthropist, would build its new building. To strengthen friendly relations, the philanthropist transfers 80 million rubles. to support RVIO and transfers the Zhenovach Theater that belonged to him to the Ministry of Culture. To prevent the implementation of the plan from being disrupted, he needs a pocket director. Sergei is betting on Liza Likhacheva, who cleared out the Melnikov House. But the museum already has a director, Irina Korobyina, who brought it from a state of complete ruin to a decent level. It is removed by an “unscheduled inspection.”
Likhachev, having received the position of director of the museum, which became successful as a result of many years of extreme efforts of all museum employees, weakens it for 6 years, getting rid of all those who are disloyal and promoting the idea that in the center, in the estate near the walls of the Kremlin, the museum is in a bad place – crowded and due to its proximity to The metro exhibits are shaking, but on the periphery it will be very good, in a new spacious building. It cancels the implementation of the permanent exhibition, worked out at the level working drawings, and dismantles two of its completed fragments – a model of the Grand Kremlin Palace and an interactive installation on the history of Russian architecture “Corridor of Time”. Getting rid of this “ballast” was the beginning of Likhacheva’s actions to free the estate from the museum. They continued in the media when her complaints about the lack of a depository suddenly turned into “an understanding of the need to build a new museum building somewhere else.” At the same time, she credits herself with everything that the museum team created over 7 years of work under the leadership of Korobina, who raised the architecture museum from a complete disaster. This is how the legend of the “effective manager” is born.
Medinsky was replaced by Lyubimova. And oh, miracle! Liza Likhacheva, who almost destroyed the museum of architecture, was appointed by order of the new minister to head one of the great museums in the world, the legendary Pushkin Museum! Director Lisa does not waste time – she leads excursions, gives lectures, bursts into the air with wild statements on any occasion.
Likhacheva’s dismissal was long awaited. The fact that the king was naked was clear at first sight. Everyone, but not government officials appointed to lead the cultural life of the country. And is it really about Liza Likhacheva? The question is – who, why and why appointed her to high government positions? And in the first case, it is the Minister of Culture Medinsky, who legitimized the pocket director of the developer Gordeev. And in the second – the Minister of Culture Lyubimova, who ordered the selection of the Department of Museums and Circus Arts of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.