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The Museum-Museum “Isaac's Cathedral” briefly had a new director-Irada Vydenko, a museum worker, a writer and organizer of children's balls in one person. Vydenko was appointed to the post yesterday, but today she wrote a statement of care, or not.

Irada Vydanenko was presented to the museum to the museum on May 31, users of social networks managed to sneak in the writers' pearls, and this morning the Fontanka reported that St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko instructed the personnel service of Smolny urgently to find the replacement of Vodnenko. “According to the leaders of Smolny, only a man can lead such an object,” said Fontanka's source. A little later, Vydenko confirmed her departure: “ I am leaving myself, now I’m writing a statement. And I am very happy from this,” she said in a commentary to RIA Novosti agency. And an hour later, she denied her resignation in an interview : “I am at the workplace, work, sign documents,” she said.

The appointment of Irada Vodenko caused ambiguous reviews, and not at all for the reasons for the sex of the new leader. However, some even supported him, for example, the former director of the Museum-Monetor "Isaacievsky Cathedral" Nikolai Burov , whose deputy Vydanenko worked for 8 years:

- I welcome this appointment, I believe that it is very good for the team that the Varangian was not invited as a director to the museum, because this would certainly create certain difficulties. But a person who has been working here for a long time was invited to the post of director, she was my deputy for a long time.

- In an interview that Irada Vydanenko has already managed to give, she carefully circumvents the question, which is probably the main thing for Petersburgers: whether she will continue your line of protection of the Isaac's Cathedral from the transfer of the Russian Orthodox Church. She carefully says that she needs to study everything first and that she wants a dialogue with the church - how do you look at it?

-If a person has the ability to first discuss everything without screams, then, in my opinion, this is good.

The former director of the St. Isaac Cathedral Museum, Nikolai Burov, who took on the main stab of resistance, as soon as the question arose about the transfer of the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, once the first to feel that the clouds over the museum were spent. He quarreled with the Higher Petersburg clergy back in 2015: at the Easter reception of Metropolitan Barshonophia, he, according to eyewitnesses, said: “This city survived the blockade and, I think, will survive you.” A series of subsequent events did not unfold in favor of Nikolai Burov, at the same time, showing that gloomy forebodings about the appetites of the new diocesan leadership were justified. Of the four cathedrals led by Burov, the complex was called the “Museum of four Cathedrals” - two, Smolny and Sampsonievsky, went to the church. Museum workers who have visited there believe that museum work as such is practically absent there. Nikolai Burov repeatedly said that if Isaacievsky “surrendered”, then another monument will go after him-saved-on-blood.

Nikolai Burov

Isaac's Cathedral turned out to be a strong nut, a stumbling block - his fate stirred the townspeople who went out into the streets to demand the former museum status to leave the monument. Petersburgers were outraged not only by the intention to convey the Cathedral of the Church, but also by the words of Governor Georgy Poltavchenko that the issue has already been resolved, and showed many thousands of rallies that it would not be possible to solve the issue without them. Nikolai Burov, a man traditionally loyal to power, was in a difficult situation - in fact on the side of the protesters. Some time ago, he announced that he was tired and wanted to fold his duties of the director.

In the press and social networks, a stormy discussion began to replace him Irad Vydanenko. On the one hand, she is not a beginner in a museum business-since 2003 she served as the chief specialist of the international department of the State Museum-Reserve “Tsarskoye Selo”, participated in the restoration of the amber room, in 2009 she stood up the head of the project “Collection of friends of the Isaac's Cathedral”. Her last position is the Deputy Director for Public Relations of the Museum-Moneline “Isaacievsky Cathedral”. On the other hand, museum work is not its only activity: Irada Vydanenko, the organizer of charitable children's balls, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, the author of children's historical books, and in 2011 it even became a co -author of the famous Polish writer Leon Vishnevsky - they wrote together the book “Love and other dissonances”.

Your interrogative cheekbones! Madly missed them, ”Sergey said with his lips

Internet users belong to the creativity of Irada Vydenko with irony, for example, discuss a quote from the novel “Attractions”, who was flying through networks: “Your interrogative cheekbones! Madly missed them,” Sergey said with his lips alone. ” There are a lot of such quotes, and all of them are doubtful, at least in the sense of measure and taste of the author. Here, for example, that you can read the novel “The Dress Code of Inspiration”: “Julia felt how the desire awakens in it again, painting her delicate cheeks in a bright scarlet color, it seemed to her that she inhales not just the air, a mixture of gases with a predominance of nitrogen, but heavenly Ambrosia, and her eyes were about to reveal miracles, and one after another, it costs one after another. Julia smiled a little and imagined how this magnificent man will now put his strong hand on her elastic chest and all the greatest truths will lose its meaning again ... "

Maxim Reznik

The deputy Maxim Reznik, known for his consistent position in the struggle against the transfer of the St. Isaac's Cathedral of the Church, believes that the appointment of the new museum director will not affect public moods.

- As for us, the defenders of the preservation of the cathedral as a museum, no matter what the director will do and say, we will continue our line, because we do not act in the interests of this or that director, and not even in the interests of the museum. We act in the interests of the city, and therefore nothing changes for us. I would be glad if a person who enjoyed great authority in the museum community, thoroughly versed in this field of activity, was appointed to this position. By the way, the fact that Vodenko said about the need for dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church is good - the dialogue is always better than the conflict, negotiations are carried out even in war. The director should be on the side of the team, on the side of the museum. The fact that Nikolai Vitalievich left this post - according to my information, corresponded to his desire. And I understand him - both physically and morally very difficult to be in a state of struggle all the time. The normal state of a person is love. Humanly, I regret his departure, but I know that other candidates for his place were discussed.

Oksana Dmitrieva

About the role of the director of the museum in the story of the Isaacievsky Cathedral is reflected in the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Oksana Dmitrieva :

The director must have some political weight, and he should have a professional in his business - in restoration, architecture, art history, and this weight should be comparable with the weight of, say, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky

- If we want to preserve the cathedral as a museum, then a lot depends on the director. The director must have some political weight, and he should have been a professional in his business - in restoration, architecture, art history, and this weight should be comparable to the weight of, say, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky. And this person must have well -known civic courage. Former director Nikolai Burov clearly turned out to be objectionable to the authorities - he nevertheless showed a firm civil position, withdrawing his consent to the transfer of the St. Isaac's Cathedral of the Church. If he spoke in for, then, I think, it would have long been a failed fact. But today, Vice-Governor Kirillov already admitted that it is possible to transfer the cathedral not under the 327th law on the transfer of religious property to religious organizations, but only in accordance with the Law on Museum Funds, and only for temporary use. This law prohibits the alienation of the objects of the museum fund, and for each of the items a separate consent, a separate permit is needed. At a minimum, a detailed description of all objects to be transferred, and the full basis of how exactly this transmission can be carried out. For each of the 26,000 items, a separate commission should be collected, the religious value of the subject, restrictions in storage, control over safety and much more should be determined. So if the professional director will clearly adhere to the letter of the law for each subject, then he can make it absolutely impossible to transfer to the Church of the Museum “Isaac's Cathedral”.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Mikhail Amosov , who also protects the Isaac's Cathedral as a museum, is inclined to the fact that the change of directors occurred due to the intractable position of the former director Nikolai Burov:

- Burov believed that the church function near the cathedral should be present, but that the building as a whole should be under the control of the museum. I am afraid that the replacement of the director will just lead to a weakening of this position, the opposing transfer of the Council of the Church. And this is now the most important question for the fate of the museum. Probably, the city authorities had the hope that it would be easier to glorify Irada Vydenko that there will be less resistance. And this issue is very sensitive not only for the museum, but for the whole city. I admit that the Church can slightly strengthen its position in the cathedral - for example, it may not work as a museum on the days of large church holidays. But if the churches are transferred to it, we can lose it as a museum, that’s the problem.