By Virginie Lenk (La Tribune de Genève)
When talking about the Kharkiv Art Museum, Oleksander Zinenko is inexhaustible.
Passionate about art, the associate professor of biology at the University of Kharkiv details with interest the collections of this building dear to the inhabitants of the city, which collects more than 25,000 works of all origins.
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Last year, they mounted an exhibition of Albrecht Dürer.
The museum also houses Ukrainian artist Ilya Repin's famous painting
Response of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
, another version of which hangs in St. Petersburg.
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On February 27, a Russian attack shattered the windows of the museum.
Repin's famous painting was brought to safety.
But others weren't so lucky.
In early May, the Hryhorii Skovoroda Literary Memorial Museum on the outskirts of Kharkiv was burned to the ground.
The poet and philosopher is considered one of the cultural fathers of the Ukrainian nation.
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