The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recognized Arkhip Kuindzhi, who was born in Mariupol, as a Ukrainian artist. This was told by art historian and journalist Oksana Semenik.

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“And finally they added who exactly destroyed the museum in Mariupol - the Russians. Let me remind you that this work [“Red Sunset” - ed.. ] is in the permanent exhibition and thousands or even tens of thousands of people read about it,” Semenik wrote..

In addition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art changed the name of the painting by Edgar Degas. Now it is called not "

Recall that the Russian invaders took out all the valuable exhibits from the museums of Mariupol. So did the Nazis during World War II.. Russian invaders stole original paintings by Kuindzhi and Aivazovsky, as well as unique icons and valuable exhibits.