Exhibition “MEMORY OF VICTORY”

The authors include artists from the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kursk, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, and Yalta.

The honorary guest of the exhibition opening was the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova. In her speech, she addressed the audience with profound words of memory, support, and respect for the heroes of the past and present. Her speech became an important accent of the entire ceremony, recalling the great power of cultural heritage and civic responsibility.

"Art is not just an expression of feelings," Maria Vladimirovna emphasized. "It is a form of action, a field of spiritual resistance, which is needed today more than ever. Everyone is in their place. Will we be able to defend this? Or will we believe that someone will do it for us? Without our participation, nothing will happen, including on this artistic front. And this is also a front where we need to do, do, and do. After all, generations are coming who will not have a direct connection with the front-line soldiers, who will not hear about the war first-hand…” These words sounded like a challenge to indifference and as a reminder: responsibility for memory is not only the business of museums and textbooks, it is our common choice - to remember, to tell, to create.