Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky has been the director of the State Hermitage Museum since 1992 and has dedicated his career to making the treasures of the museum accessible to individuals and institutions around the world. With a degree in Oriental and Arabic studies, he is a professor of St Petersburg State University, where he chairs the "Museology" and "Ancient Orient" departments. He is the author of numerous publications. His father, Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky, an eminent archaeologist, was director of the museum from 1964 to 1990.
"I welcome the new book, My Hermitage: How The Hermitage
Survived Tsars, Wars and Revolutions to Become the Greatest Museum
in the World, for its erudition, passion and lively history. .
. I hope The Hermitage is on your list of ‘must-see’
museums. If so, this is the essential reference that will enrich
the hours and days of exploration."
-TheStyleSaloniste.com
"The story of the palatial museum's 250-year history, which is as
rich in adventure as it is in art, is extravagantly
revealed."
-THE SOCIETY DIARIES
"The visuals of My Hermitage continually remind you of
the encyclopedic collection housed there. This beautiful, lavishly
illustrated book hints at the opulence of the setting of that
collection as well . . . For some, these reminders of the tsarist
past jar with their decadence, but I saw them as the most
appropriate setting for the art — a literal, almost limitless
palace of human imagination."
-BIG THINK
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