paintings by artists with belarusian roots, such as belynychsky beruli, works by russian artists, worksbelarusian artists were actively purchased during her support. moreover, even she. gave her order for the writing of certain works, as an example we can cite when mikhail andreevich sovetsky bought the partisan madonna, which is now in the tetyakov gallery, then at her request, mikhail andreevich savitsky wrote the partisan madonna of minsk, which is in our permanent exhibition. simultaneously with the work on restoring the rich collections of the museum, the issue of constructing an art museum building was discussed, it should become. the pride of the republic, hunger, devastation, the government has been working in minsk for only a few weeks, on the agenda of presidium meetings along with the most important. support for science and culture. during the most difficult post-war period, work began on the project for a new museum building. it was entrusted to the young front-line architect mikhail baklanov. and by the end of the forties, he presented a draft design to the high commission,