Mikhail Mishustin reappoints Mikhail Piotrovsky as General Director of the Hermitage

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Order dated September 9, 2025 No. 2476-r

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Order dated September 9, 2025 No. 2476-r

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order to reappoint Mikhail Piotrovsky as General Director of the State Hermitage Museum for a five-year term.

Mikhail Piotrovsky has been working at the Hermitage since 1991. At first, he was deputy director for research, and in 1992 he took the position of director of the museum.

Mikhail Piotrovsky is a Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Presidium of the RAS, and Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. He is a member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art and the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Science and Education.

Mikhail Piotrovsky is a full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". He was also awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky and the Order of Friendship.

In 2003, he was awarded the Presidential Prize in Literature and Art, and in 2017, the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art.

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