Mikhail Borissowitsch Piotrowski

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Mikhail Borisovich Pjotrowski , even Mikhail Pjotrovski ., Scientific transliteration Mikhail Borisovič Piotrovskij ( Russian Михаил Борисович Пиотровский * 9 December 1944 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR ) since 1992 director of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg .

biography

Michail Borissowitsch Piotrowski was born in 1944 as the son of the archaeologist Boris Borissowitsch Piotrowski and his Armenian wife Hripsime Djanpoladjian . who was also director of the State Hermitage from 1964 to 1990. He grew up in Leningrad , as Petersburg was called at the time.

Piotrowski graduated in 1967 from the Faculty of Orient of Leningrad University in the subject of Arabic Studies . From 1965 to 1966 he studied at Cairo University . In 1967 he received his doctorate in history and started work in the Leningrad Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . From 1973 to 1976 he worked as a translator and history teacher at the High School of Social Sciences in the Republic of Yemen . From 1983 he worked on a Soviet-Yemeni history project, which he directed from 1988 to 1990. He also gave lectures at Arabic-speaking universities and took part in excavations in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Yemen.

In 1991, after the death of his father, he became deputy director of the Hermitage, and in 1992 its director. However, the museum's funds were cut during the 1990s, so that the approximately 2000 employees froze in winter. In 2001 he was appointed advisor for culture and art to the Russian President. He is also a professor at St. Petersburg University. He published numerous articles on the mythology and history of the Islamic world. As director, he pursued a policy of "multicultural globalism". In 2000 he opened the Hermitage in Somerset House in London ; in 2001, Old Masters came to Las Vegas in collaboration with the New York Guggenheim Museum ; something similar happened in Amsterdam . In 2006, he came under pressure when an employee of the company stole around 200 small but valuable pieces.

Piotrowski is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, a corresponding member of the Academy of Art, a member of the Social Science Academy, a member of the Venetian Academy Ateneo Veneto .

Honors

Piotrowski and President Medvedev , 2009 ...
... and President Putin , 2014

Pyotrovsky received numerous awards, including the Order of Orange-Nassau (1996), the Order of Honor (Russia) (1997), twice the French Order of the Legion of Honor (1998, 2004), the Swedish North Star Order (1999), the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000, 2004), the Armenian Order of Saint Mesrop (2000), the Ukrainian Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (2003), the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2004), the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland (2004, 2009 ), In 2003 he was awarded the Art and Literature Prize by the Russian President, followed by the Al-Fahr Order of Honor of the Council of Muftis of Russia (2005), the Order of the Lion of Finland (2005), and then in 2007 the Order of Japan the Rising Sun , the Amsterdam Silver Medal and the USA Woodrow Wilson Award (both 2009). The Order of the Crown (Belgium) followed in 2011 . In 2016, Piotrowski was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works (selection)

  • with Geraldine Norman (ed.): The State Hermitage. Masterpieces from the Museum's Collection , 2 vols., New edition, Harry N. Abrams, New York 2001.
  • The Hermitage in the Context of the City , in: Museum International 55.1 (2003) 79-84.
  • (Ed.): Lost Empire of the Silk Road. Buddhist Art from Khara Khoto (X-XIIIth Century) , exhibition catalog, Electra, Milan 1999.

literature

  • Sylvie Cameron, Laurent Lapierre: Mikhaïl Piotrovsky and the State Hermitage Museum , in: International Journal of Arts Management 10.1 (2007) 65-78.
  • Mikhail Piotrovsky , in: Andrew Davidson (Ed.): 1000 CEOs , Dorling Kindersley, 2009, p. 156.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Mikhail Piotrovsky , The Aurora Prize.
  2. ^ Andrew Davidson, p. 156.
  3. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Piotrowski, Michail Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pyotrowski, Michail Borissowitsch; Pyotrovski, Mikhail; Piotrovskij, Mikhail Borisovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian museum director, director of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg (since 1992)
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan , Armenian SSR