For Chinese tourists, they will not introduce a separate day of visit to the Tsarskoye Selo Museum, the Ministry of Culture said

The Ministry of Culture clarified that it would not limit the entrance to the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-reserve for Chinese tourists. Earlier, Deputy Minister of Culture Alla Manilova said that they receive numerous complaints due to mass collapse with Chinese tourists. Manilova instructed the director of the Department of Museums to prepare proposals for the development of a system of visiting museums, according to which certain days of visits will be established for foreign citizens.

On the evening of September 24, an explanation appeared on the Ministry of Culture about the situation with the “royal village”. Representatives of the department clarified that "in no case we are talking about restricting access to the museum for Chinese tourists."

From the statement of the Ministry of Culture:

“In turn, the leadership of the ministry noted an alarming number of letters from the citizens of the Russian Federation that Russian tourists who came to the museum from regions from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, from Murmansk to Grozny, cannot get into the Catherine Palace, which is the center of attraction of tourists and the main pearl of the entire museum-reserve. Therefore, the leadership of the ministry set the task of the director of Tsarskoye Selo and the Department of Museums to develop a system of measures to competent regulation of tourist flows. In no case is it about restriction of access to the museum for Chinese tourists. On the contrary, it was emphasized that Chinese tourists representing the country - the strategic partner of the Russian Federation are welcome guests in the museum. That is why everything needs to be done so that Russian tourists have access to their own cultural heritage, and guests from China did not stand in line, the waiting time in which today is up to 4 hours. ”

Olga Taratynova, director of Tsarskoye Selo, previously promised to introduce the electronic system for selling tickets for passports next year so that visitors would come to a certain time and do not stand in line. According to Taratynova, this is the "only way out." Now the waiting in line for tickets to the museum is 4 hours, she says.