A complaint was filed with the Prosecutor General’s Office against former Pushkin Museum director Elizaveta Likhacheva over her remarks that the kokoshnik is not an originally Russian headdress

A complaint was filed with the Prosecutor General’s Office against former Pushkin Museum director Elizaveta Likhacheva over her remarks that the kokoshnik is not an originally Russian headdress

This was reported on his channel by serial complainant Vitaly Borodin.

In July, Likhacheva took part in blogger Pavel Kostin’s podcast, where she noted that some cultural elements considered “originally Russian” had been borrowed from abroad.

“Seriously, the kokoshnik? Have you ever once seen how Russian women actually dressed? Kokoshniks were invented by artists of the Art Nouveau era, who swiped headdresses from 15th-century Italian paintings. What else is Russian there? Khokhloma, seriously? That craft is only 200 years old. Gzhel? Someday, if you’re in the Netherlands, or you can go to St. Petersburg and look at the rooms in the Menshikov Palace, you’ll see exactly the same thing there too: white-and-blue tiles,” the former Pushkin Museum director said.

In his post, Borodin wrote that “publicly denying such things is no longer a scholarly discussion.”

“This is a blow to our cultural code, to historical memory. Especially when it is done by a former head of a federal museum. We saw signs here of possible external influence. A reasonable question arises: who is behind such statements, and why? That is why we prepared and sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia. We ask that Likhacheva’s activities be examined for possible discrediting of cultural heritage. And that the sources of her funding also be established,” he added.

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