Mikhail Piotrovsky

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Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Piotrovsky - 2018 - 04.jpg
Piotrovsky in 2018
Born (1944-12-09) 9 December 1944 (age 76)
Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
Alma materLeningrad State University
OccupationMuseum director, orientalist

Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky (Russian: Михаил Борисович Пиотровский) is the Director of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Life and career[]

He was born in Yerevan in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic on 9 December 1944 to Boris Piotrovsky, a notable Orientalist and himself the future Director of the Hermitage Museum, and Armenian mother Hripsime Djanpoladjian.[citation needed]

At the Leningrad University, Mikhail Piotrovsky obtained a doctorate in Arabic linguistics. After graduating in 1967, he worked as an interpreter in Yemen and took part in archaeological exploration of the Caucasus. After his father's death in 1990, Piotrovsky was appointed Director of the Hermitage in his stead.[1]

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Piotrovsky advocated the opening of the Hermitage collections to the wider world, which resulted in the establishment of the Hermitage Rooms in Somerset House, Hermitage Amsterdam and the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum.[2] His tenure was not entirely free of scandals, however. After the museum announced in July 2006 that 221 minor items, including jewelry, Orthodox icons, silverware and richly enameled objects, had been stolen by one of the museum officials, there were calls for Piotrovsky's resignation.[3]

Awards and honors[]

Piotrovsky has been invested with numerous orders and medals, both Russian and foreign, including the Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of Honor. He has also had a minor planet named after him. Piotrovsky has been Chair of the Board of the First Channel of the Russian television since 2001.[1]

On 1 October 2009, Piotrovsky received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Kennan Institute.[4][5][6]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Museum Director: Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky". The State Hermitage Museum. 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  2. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 5 декабря 2014 года № 756 "О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации"
  3. ^ Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research
  4. ^ "Hermitage Museum Foundation Newsletter" (PDF). website. January 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  5. ^ Dworkin, Scott (February 5, 2017). Trump Hosted Event for Putin Sr Advisor at Mar a Lago in 2010. Dworkin website. Archived from the original November 26, 2020. Archived from the original December 17, 2020.
  6. ^ Gutierrez, Rual. "Trump's Russian Connections, A Handy Timeline". The Medium. Archived from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
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