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December 9, 2019
Mikhail Piotrovsky. Custodian
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December 9, 2019
The Piotrovsky Code
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November 18, 2019
The Madonna versus the Peacock
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October 30, 2019
Mikhail Piotrovsky: How to take our culture to the world.
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October 4, 2019
A museum's place is midway between a temple and Disneyland
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August 28, 2019
Mikhail Piotrovsky: A city where all religions live
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July 31, 2019
Mikhail Piotrovsky. Without renouncing or cursing
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July 10, 2019
Mikhail Piotrovsky. Justice is like Pandora’s Box
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June 27, 2019
Who takes selfies in museums?
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June 5, 2019
Mikhail Piotrovsky. Provocation in Venice
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May 22, 2019
“Contemporary Art Doesn’t Exist”
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February 27, 2019
Mikhail Piotrovsky: Building Bridges of Trust
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January 30, 2019
Mikhail Piotrovsky: A Planet of White Elephants
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December 19, 2018
Mikhail Piotrovsky: What we bring to St Petersburg
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November 28, 2018
Mikhail Piotrovsky: Investment in the Future
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November 16, 2018
The Hermitage Director Spoke about Creative Ties with Italy
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October 31, 2018
Mikhail Piotrovsky. Compassion Defuses Hysteria
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October 12, 2018
A Gathering of Hundreds of Faces
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September 27, 2018
Mikhail Piotrovsky: Why Danaë should travel to the East
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July 25, 2018
Mikhail Piotrovsky. Getting Along with One Another
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May 25, 2018
“People who appreciate culture are already an elite”
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April 26, 2018
Mikhail Piotrovsky spoke about a “Road of Life” for culture
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March 20, 2018
Seek opportunities in troubles
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March 1, 2018
Have we lost the intelligentsia?
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January 31, 2018
Breathing Life into Sites of Memory
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December 30, 2017
“Culture is a privilege”: a big interview with Mikhail Piotrovsky
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December 25, 2017
“Savage malice is a peculiarity of our society”
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December 20, 2017
Addressing the City and the World
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November 30, 2017
The Winter Palace and Hermitage as Witnesses of the Russian Revolution
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November 30, 2017
Mikhail Piotrovsky: “We have created the Hermitage of the 21st century”
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November 22, 2017
Atlantes and “Sergeants”
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October 2, 2017
Mikhail Piotrovsky’s interview with the Russia-24 TV channel
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August 17, 2017
On changes in the law on the Museum Fund of Russia
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August 14, 2017
Martin Roth has died
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August 2, 2017
The Space Maintained by Museums and the Church
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July 28, 2017
Mikhail Piotrovsky’s Rules for Life
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July 25, 2017
It is precisely museums that make today’s Russia Russia
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July 26, 2017
Culture should be supported by society
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July 12, 2017
Saying Everything without Offending Anyone
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May 31, 2017
Art carves out a window to Europe
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April 26, 2017
Maecenas Was Born in April
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March 30, 2017
In the Hermitage Kings Feel Humble
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March 29, 2017
There will always be a war of memory
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March 21, 2017
Agent 2017. Soft Power
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March 16, 2017
A Fashion for Class Division
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March 9, 2017
Respect is born in struggle
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February 1, 2017
Исаакий себя защитит
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December 21, 2016
The Soft Power of Trust
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December 19, 2016
Thus Spake Piotrovsky
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November 23, 2016
Mikhail Piotrovsky: “Provocation should prompt discussion”
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October 24, 2016
An Arbiter of Future Taste
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October 14, 2016
Petersburg Elegance
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September 28, 2016
A Dialogue between Museums and the Church
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September 15, 2016
Museums and the Church. A Programme for Collaboration
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September 7, 2016
A Medicine for Russophobia
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July 27, 2016
The Bridge of Culture Has Not Been Demolished
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June 1, 2016
A Tricky Criterion
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April 27, 2016
It’s interesting for us to build bridges
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March 31, 2016
The Silence of the Stones
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March 30, 2016
Palmyra at the Crossroads
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March 30, 2016
Mikhail Piotrovsky: A Person Should Be Complex
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December 29, 2015
What Jihad and Crusades Have in Common
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December 28, 2015
Interview with the magazine Gorod-812
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December 16, 2015
Global Threats and the “Russian” Recipe
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December 14, 2015
On the Sacredness of Culture
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December 10, 2015
Algebra from Raphael
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October 29, 2015
Who will be the force for good?
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October 28, 2015
“Through museums the memory of the past is destroyed”
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October 26, 2015
MIKHAIL PIOTROVSKY with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
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September 24, 2015
We have to live with this distrust
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September 1, 2015
Mikhail Piotrovsky: The bridge of culture should be blown up last
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August 26, 2015
A Cure for Intolerance
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June 11, 2015
Greeting by M.B. Piotrovsky at Intermuseum 2015
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May 22, 2015
Who is going to Save Palmyra?
Blog Highlights
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December 16, 2015
Global Threats and the “Russian” Recipe
From the speech given by Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage, Head of the Museums Section at the Forum, at the concluding plenary session on 16 December 2015
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December 14, 2015
On the Sacredness of Culture
Culture has its own sacredness and sacred territory, which needs to be protected. That idea gave birth to UNESCO, first as a club of high intellectuals, then as a mechanism for defending the rights of the deprived and forgotten, as a means for the interaction of cultures.