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Vladimir Gusev left the post of director of the Russian Museum

He held this position over the past 35 years, now he is an honorary president. About how long Gusev was headed by the State Russian Museum (HRM), we can judge by this fact: during this time, 8 mayors of St. Petersburg have changed.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Gusev was born on April 25, 1945 in Tver (at that time - Kalinin). He graduated from the Kalinin Industrial College. He worked at the factory for several years, then led the drawing bureau in the military research institute. At 25, Gusev entered the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin. Having received a diploma of an art critic in 1974, he first taught at a children's art school, then worked in the organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, and in January 1978 he came to the Russian Museum. Here over 10 years he has gone from a senior researcher, head of the Department of Contemporary Art to the leader.

At that time, when Gusev became the director of the Russian Museum, he managed a team of 500 people and one exposition building. After the gradual (from 1988 to 2004) joining the museum of several branches (Stroganovsky and Marble Palaces, Mikhailovsky Castle, two gardens - Mikhailovsky and Summer, the house of Peter I), the state grew several times, and the total area of ​​the museum exceeded 30 hectares.

Gusev was remembered in St. Petersburg by the fact that he easily agreed to everything new.

Thus, with the development of high -speed Internet in Russia, he supported the promising proposals of colleagues, and the Russian museum has a network of virtual branches (halls with computers that have access to a program that allows you to make walks on the anfilates and get acquainted with the museum exhibits at any point in the world) around the country and far beyond its borders. For 2019, the Russian Museum had more than 200 virtual branches in Russia and abroad, and even in Antarctica.

Among the projects that Petersburgers still cannot forgive Gusev are a scandalous large -scale reconstruction of the summer garden, during which from 2009 to 2011 his appearance changed dramatically.

In the summer garden, hundreds of trees were cut down in unsatisfactory condition, new trees and shrubs were planted, sculptures were replaced by copies, and new pavilions and fountains were opened. In addition, wooden lattices were installed in the garden - trellises to support young shrubs at first, but in the end the trellis remained here forever.

After Gusev’s transfer to the honorary position of the President of the Russian Museum of the temporarily acting director of the timing, the deputy general director for development, educational and educational activities Anna Tsvetkova became. However, in the cultural circles of St. Petersburg, the possibility of appointing to the vacant position of Deputy Minister of Culture Alla Manilova, a former vice-governor of St. Petersburg (it is associated with the Matvienko team) is being discussed. However, if this happens, then not earlier than the summer of 2023, when the term of the Manilova contract expires in the Ministry of Culture.