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Mikhail Piotrovsky appointed General Director of the Hermitage for three years

MOSCOW, September 24 – RIA Novosti. The Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, was appointed as the General Director of the Museum for three years, according to the relevant instruction. signed Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

“To appoint and dismiss Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky as Director General of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture of the State Hermitage for a term of three years,” the document published on the official portal of legal information says.

Piotrovsky, Soviet and Russian historian, orientalist, Arabist. He is the President of the Union of Museums of Russia. Author of more than 250 scientific works, including catalogs of Arabic manuscripts, publications of medieval monuments and ancient inscriptions. Piotrovsky was the museum’s director since 1992, and his father was the Hermitage’s director from 1964 to 1990.

Source: Ria

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