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The administration of St. Petersburg demanded from the director of the Museum "Isaac's Cathedral" Nikolai Burov to Easter to transport exhibits from the temple to a new repository. This was reported by RBC with reference to sources in the Ministry of Culture and federal officials.

The order was given orally, there are no written instructions on this score, the sources noted. At the same time, this is not just about moving the exhibits, but about the renewal of them to another museum, for example, the largest state museum of the history of St. Petersburg in the city. “In fact, we are talking about the unification of two museums,” said the source. “There is an understanding that it is necessary to unite museums and somehow speed up the process (transmission of the ROC of the cathedral. - Ed.).

Burov himself, as well as the administration of St. Petersburg and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, could not comment on the requirement to free the premises before Easter. This year, Russian Orthodox celebrate it on April 16.

The main keeper of the State Museum of Mansur Dominov also learned about the requirements of the city authorities from the media. According to him, in the Isaac's Cathedral there are about 26 thousand moved museum objects and only 62 objects inseparable from the cathedral. “If everything is built as the law requires, according to the instructions, this is not so simple. The date of April 16 - it is absolutely invented. Where it came from, we do not know. It is unreal,” Dominov emphasized .

The press service of the Ministry of Culture excluded the transfer of exhibits from Isaac to the transfer of the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. "The movement of museum objects located in the Isaac's Cathedral for storage or exhibiting in the design of the temporary extradition belongs to the competence of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation - the city of St. Petersburg and at the same time cannot be carried out before the transfer of the building of the Isaac's Cathedral to the ROC," the department said.

Meanwhile, on Monday, at a meeting in the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg, in the lawsuit of the opponents of the transfer of the ROC, the representative of the city’s property relations committee reported that officials did not receive an official statement from the Russian Orthodox Church on the transfer of the cathedral. "The statements from the religious organization in the manner prescribed by federal law were not submitted. The decision cannot be made in its absence," she said.

The representative of the committee emphasized that the Kio order of December 30 on the procedure for preparing for the transfer of the cathedral "does not bear legal consequences."

Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the St. Petersburg ZakSA, one of the plaintiffs, drew the court's attention to the governor’s response to a collective deputy request. “It clearly follows from the answer that there is no statement. And at the disposal of the Kio that we dispute, there is a direct link to the appeal. If this appeal is not there, but there is something else, then this is not within the framework of the 327th Federal Law. So, this cannot have a legal significance, and no order of Kio can be issued on the basis of this,” the deputy said.

The transfer of Isaacia of the Russian Orthodox Church, which was already considered a resolved issue, was suspended in mid -February when information appeared in the media that this step was not coordinated with Vladimir Putin . On February 28, the St. Petersburg Horizobirk accepted the application for a referendum on the issue of belonging to Isaac, as well as the Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Temple of the Savior on the Blood.