as an example , when michal sovitsky bought a partisan madonna, which is now in the tetyakovskaya gallerythen at her request mikhail andreevich sovitsky painted a partisan modonna to minsk, which is in our permanent exhibition. simultaneously with the work on restoring the museum's richest collections , the issue of constructing an art museum building was discussed. it should become the pride of the republic. famine, devastation, the government has been working in minsk for only a few weeks, and the agenda of the presidium meetings, along with the most important economic issues, includes support for science and culture. in the most difficult post-war period , work began on the design of the new museum building. it was entrusted to a young architect and war veteran mikhail baklanov. and by the end of the forties years, he presented to the high commission. a draft solution, but not a museum building, but a museum city in the center of the belarusian capital. it was assumed that it would be located above the bend, the bend, today, naturally, professional culture and art come to the fore, our