🖼 Historian Leonid Marushchak saved more than 2 million works of art from the front-line territories - these are Polovtsian women, the work of Alla Gorska, Aivazovsky, Kuindzhi and Yablonskaya.

Despite constant shelling, Leonid returns to the museum dozens of times to take out all the works of the collection. During his last trip to Bakhmut, he took out a statue of a lion of the 13th and 14th centuries, while a battle between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the russian DRG was going on near the museum.

In Beryslav, he was attacked by drones - he lost his bus, but soon he returned in a rented car to take every sight out of the museum.

"Babel" tells his story. (use the translation tool of your browser)

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