The Russian Bear has died!
Today 30 November 2020, Irina Antonova past away this morning at 98 years of age! She personally unloaded the trophies arriving in the Soviet Union and helped to store them in the museums. From Director she became the President of the Pushkin Museums of Art, I am loosing a friend, for 75 years she took care of the 309 Koenigs drawings. She was a strong and decisive woman who never relented in her view about the Throphee Art and who was not corrupted, till her very end. In her memory,
Christine Koenigs
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