Vladimir Putin’s war endangers Ukraine’s cultural heritage
The loss of museums, exquisite architecture and valuable archives is awful to contemplate
TWO YEARS ago the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv celebrated the return of a long-lost painting. “The Amorous Couple” by Pierre Goudreaux, an 18th-century French artist, was looted by the Nazis during the second world war. It had come up for sale at an auction in New York in 2013 and finally found its way home. Now the amorous couple are back in a packing-case, hidden away not from German occupying forces this time, but Russian ones.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “In the line of fire”
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