collection began to be restored immediately after the liberation of the capital in july 1944; elena aladovaen small gallery team, bought out the paintings of artists with belarusian roots, such as the works of russian artists, the works of modern dutch artists were actively purchased with her support; moreover, even she gave your order for the writing of certain works. an example is when they bought a soviet partisan madonna, which is now in the tretyakov gallery, at the request of mikhail andreevich savitsky, painted the partisan madonna of minsk, which is in our permanent exhibition , the issue of building an art museum building was discussed to restore the museum's richest collections. it should become the pride of the republic of hunger and devastation, the government has been working in minsk for only a few weeks, and the agenda of the meetings of the presidium, along with the most complex economic issues, is support for the science of culture. the most difficult post-war period work began on the project of a new museum building; it was entrusted to a young front-line architect mikhail