Shvydkoy: all exhibits from the State Museum Fund of Russia returned to the country

Legal work is underway for several works by private collectors, he said.

“All the exhibits that were in the State Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, they all returned to their homeland.

The things that remain, in my opinion, two or three works, are works owned by private collectors.

There is a lot of legal work going on there.

I think that in the end this issue will be resolved, but as long as their owners are under European sanctions, it’s quite difficult,” Shvydkoy told TASS.

In May, the head of the Russian Ministry of Culture, Olga Lyubimova, announced that exhibits from the collection of patrons Mikhail and Ivan Morozov had returned to Russia.

Mikhail Shvydkoy also noted the absence of threats to Russian cultural property abroad.