A group of well-known nationalist intellectuals, including film director Nikita Mikhalkov, artist Ilya Glazunov, and writers Valentin Rasputin and Vasily Belov, weighed in with a petition calling the exhibition a "new stage of conscious Satanism." They wrote that Russia's enemies were bent on humiliating the powerless "Russian people, their objects of worship, and their historic values."
一些著名民族主义分子，包括电影导演Nikita Mikhalkov，艺术家Ilya Glazunov，作家Valentin Rasputin和Vasily Belov也参与进来，将这次展览称做"新一轮有意的恶魔崇拜。"在他们笔下，俄国的敌人一心想羞辱软弱无力的"俄国人民，羞辱他们的崇拜对象还有历史价值观。"