On 24 September, 2007, the Hermitage Friends' Club opened its 2007-08 season. The program included a presentation after the restoration of Three wooden reliefs with polychrome painting by German masters of the 15th-16th cc. and a meeting with Elena Karchova, the keeper of the reliefs and Tatiana Baranova, Head of the Department of Scientific Restoration and Conservation. Special guests: Representatives of the Knauf Company that financially supported the restoration of the reliefs.

We encourage everyone who is not yet a member of the Hermitage Friends' Club to do so by joining before the event, which will provide your participation in all the exclusive events for the members of the Hermitage Friends' Club only.

Membership information is available here: International Friends' Club or by phone: (812) 710-90-05
fax: (812) 571-95-28
e-mail: friendsclub@hermitage.ru

At the meeting

At the presentation after the restoration of Three wooden reliefs with polychrome painting by German masters of the 15th-16th cc.

Yuri Mikhailov, General Director of the Knauf Gypsum Kolpino