"There was a question about the dismissal of the chief curator of the museum, but I did not support it, this is an inflection point," the minister said on the sidelines of the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi.

Earlier, the director of the Tretyakov Gallery, Zelfire Tregulova, was reprimanded after the abduction of the canvas of Arkhip Kuindzhi “Ai-Petri. Crimea "from the exhibition.

January 27, the attacker made a picture of the Tretyakov Gallery, no one prevented him. The next day, the canvas was found in the suburbs. Tagansky Court imprisoned the kidnapper.

February 1, the picture returned to the exhibition.

After this incident in the Tretyakov Gallery, the museum curator was fired.