Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky Director Of The State Hermitage Editorial Image

Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky is a Soviet and Russian orientalist historian, an Arabist, an Islamic scholar, organizer of the museum business, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. Since 1992 - Director of the State Hermitage. Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. President of the Union of Museums of Russia. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation 2017 and the President`s Prize of the Russian Federation 2003. The son of an outstanding archaeologist, a long-standing director of the Hermitage, Academician Boris Piotrovsky.