The construction of the Arkhip Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol was hit by an air bomb of Russian invaders. Konstantin Chernyavsky, head of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, announced this to the publishing house "
By the time of the bombing, the museum did not have Kuindzhi's originals, but the works of other prominent artists were preserved: Ivan Aivazovsky, Nikolai Glushchenko, Tatyana Yablonskaya.
In total, the exposition contained about 2 thousand exhibits, including works of painting, arts and crafts, as well as graphics and sculpture..
The Kuindzhi Museum was opened in 2010 in the Geotsintov estate, says Local History. At present, the Art Nouveau building of 1902 has been destroyed by Russian invaders..
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Earlier, Russian invaders damaged the Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities in Chernihiv. The building survived the shelling of the Bolsheviks and the bombing of the Nazis.