Ustin Maltsev’s fund saved the masterpieces of art of Kherson region

   Works of native and foreign painting, graphics, and sculpture, arts and crafts, starting from the samples of Russian icon painting of the 17th century and till the samples of modern Kherson painters. The collection of the museum totals more than 10 000 exhibits, the main part of which needs urgent restoration. It is very sad to realize that one needs enormous costs of time, energy and financial deposits to save these masterpieces of art. Unfortunately, there is no opportunity to make the restoration of the exhibits because of insufficient funding of the museum. The administration of the art museum of Shovkunenko asked the Charity fund of Ustin Maltsev for help for restoration of paintings in 2011. This is when the Charity find and the art museum organized a social charitable project on saving the exhibits of the museum "Let's save the cultural heritage". In the course of this project restorers Tsitovich Darya and Beskrovniy Anatoliy were invited from Kiev. They restored three paintings that are of great value for the museum: Skirgello B. "Harvest", Zagorodnyuk F. "Academician A. Greben", Sizikov V. "Legendary Lioshka".
  "I think that culture and painting are the foundation of spirituality development in our country and society in general. We must realize that it is necessary to support culture as it is the starting point of society development. Unfortunately, natural focus on mutual exchange is lost now. If we don't make contribution into culture, education, process of schooling, the society will come to the deadlock when any development will stop. If you ask me, why I do this, why I help to develop culture, I will tell you that I do this for myself, for my relatives for all Kherson citizens and people who visit Kherson region, for our future and the future of our children", - told Ustin Maltsev, philanthropist, public figure, the head of the Charity fund.

   This is not the end of museum's and fund's cooperation. The project "Let's save the cultural heritage" is held on a regular basis.
   Besides the 3 paintings that were restored before, restorers from Kiev selected 10 more paintings that needed urgent help. If we don't renovate them today, it will lead to complete loss of art masterpieces. With the help of the Fund, the following paintings were restored: Auvazovskiy I. "The storm subsided", Makovskiy V. "Woman's portrait", Sverchkov M. "A dog and a hare", Savrasov A. "Sunset", Rihter G. "Village landscape", "Luke the Evangelist" by a Russian icon painter of the 17th century, Kotlyarov I. "Three riders", Lebedev-Shuyskiy A. "Still life with notes", Grigoryev S. "Young botanist", Stolitsa E. "Seashore".

The Charity fund and the art museum of Shovkunenko will cooperate henceforth for the benefit of cultural development of Kherson region.