The Bulgakov Museum will not wash his portrait from red paint and advises to study history better
25 April 2024 15:33
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The Mikhail Bulgakov Literary and Memorial Museum has no plans to change the appearance of memorials to the writer. In particular, the plaque that was doused with paint by civic activists in protest, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
“Bulgakov’s portrait was once poured over with paint, but we left it as it is, because this is history. We insist that we should study history better, not remove it. This is the reality we live in now. These are our moods, our emotions. And we have to respond to them, too.”
– commented to Komersant ukrainskyi in the museum.
Currently, museum workers are planning to research the history of the estate where the museum is located.
“The point is not even that this is the Bulgakov Museum, but thanks to the fact that this house became a museum, it was saved from destruction. It was in such a terrible state that it was going to be destroyed,”
– says the director of the Mikhail Bulgakov Literary and Memorial Museum.
It should be noted that recently, a petition on the Kyiv City Council website demanding the removal of the monument and plaque to Mikhail Bulgakov from the public space of Kyiv received the required 6,000 votes.
The final decision on the dismantling of the monument is to be made by the deputies of the Kyiv City Council, as the Museum is subordinated to the city authorities.
We would like to add that Kyiv activists are asking the city authorities to dismantle the monument to Bulgakov (13 Andriyivskyy Descent), the memorial plaque to Mikhail Bulgakov (13 Andriyivskyy Descent), rename and change the exposition of the branch of the municipal Museum of the History of Kyiv – the Literary and Memorial Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov (13 Andriyivskyy Descent) from the public space as part of decommunisation.”
on 3 April, the writer Mikhail Bulgakov was recognised as a symbol of Russian imperial policy. Consequently, the use of his name in the names of a number of objects and the erection of monuments in his honour will be considered propaganda for Russian imperial policy.
The expert commission of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance considers Bulgakov to be an imperialist in outlook and an ardent Ukrainophobe.
