Meeting of Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, and Dirk Advocaat, head coach of FC Zenit, St. Petersburg

8 May 2009, an informal meeting of Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, and Dirk Advocaat, head coach of FC Zenit, St. Petersburg, took place. The negotiations resulted in an agreement on the development of partnership between the State Hermitage Museum and FC Zenit within the frames of the project "Hermitage 20/21", in particular, the exhibition "Newspeak: The British Art Today", which is to be open in the Winter Palace on October 27, 2009.

Negotiations in the Director’s office

During the meeting