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01 October 2010, 17:06Museum workers don't give icons to Church, but can't restore them themselves, Russian parliament vice speaker believes
Moscow, October 1, Interfax - The State Duma deputy speaker Lyubov Sliska believes that museums which do not have means to restore icons still refuse to give shrines to the Church.
"They are like "dog in the manger". They don't give icons to the Church and at the same time they don't have means to keep them and restore," Sliska said in her interview to the Rus Derzhavnaya paper published in October.
The deputy speaker pointed out to the icon of the Savior of Yeleazarovo that was kept in Pskov regional museum and for 84 years had never been restored.
"When we visited the museum last year, I was so stricken with what I saw there: the door opened and thus it closed a niche in the wall where the icon was kept lit with a small flashlight," Sliska said.
However, when a question of transferring the icon to the restored Savior Monastery in Yeleazarovo was raised, she further said, museum workers "put unthinkable claims": they estimated the icon in 25 million euro thus "attracting criminal to it," set an insurance sum of two million euro, and said that an expensive icon-case, departmental security service, warning system, a watching camera and two restorers are needed to protect it.
"They suggested making a copy of this icon and place it in the monastery. And the icon would have stayed in this niche as in a doghouse. And it would have laid there until it crashed to dust. It is a success that the icon finally returned to its monastery," the deputy speaker said.
The image will be sent to "the normal restoration" in a year and then, Sliska believes, "it will work, work miracles."
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