Iksanov said that he himself asked for a resignation in April

Former General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Anatoly Iksanov said that he himself asked about his resignation in the spring. “At the end of April, I myself suggested changing me,” Ixanov told Kommersant .

The former leader of the theater believes that the resignation occurred on time. “By the end of this season I will just have time to refer to business,” he said. Iksanov noted that he himself suggested that Vladimir Urin for the post of general director Gabt as a “most worthy candidate”.

About the appropriate moment of the change of leadership, the newspaper and Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky told the newspaper. He confirmed that Ixanov asked for a resignation in the spring. As the official explained, Ixanov’s request, "of course, accelerated the decision -making process."

Medinsky noted that the change of general director of the Bolshoi Theater "is a logical continuation of the general course of the ministry to a gradual renewal of federal cultural institutions for their development - without sudden movements, without voluntarism and necessarily relying on the tradition and former leaders who will now act, where it is possible, in the role of advisers and consultants." “In the same way as in recent weeks, this happened, for example, in the Polytechnic and the Pushkin Museum,” he explained.

The minister also refused to comment on the possibility of returning to the troupe of Nikolai Tsiscaridze: "Ask Urina about this. Appointing him the director of the Bolshoi, we proceeded from the fact that this is a person from the outside, not drawn into the internal conflicts of the theater and free from all obligations."

Recall that the dismissal of Anatoly Iksanov, the head of the Ministry of Culture Medinsky announced on July 9. Then they named the name of the new leader of the theater, who became Urin, who had previously headed the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko music theater.

The specific reasons for the change of management of the Gabt have not yet been made. Medinsky previously said that a difficult situation has developed in the theater and that the ministry is now conducting a course to update personnel of federal cultural institutions.