East meets West in Venice: the unlikely love affair between a Hermitage curator and a Cambridge don
Iain Pears calls his book “a simple tale of two people from a world long ago who meet and fall ...
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Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky compares Russian export of tradition to nation’s ‘operation’ in Ukraine
After Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the huge State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, ...
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