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The Signing of a Memorandum of Partnership
On February 23rd, 2012 in the Hermitage, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, the General Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Andrzej Rottermund, the Director of the Royal Castle Museum, Tadeusz Zelnevich, the Director of the Lazienki Palace Museum, Pavel Potorochin, the director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw, Poland, signed a Memorandum of Partnership. Bogdan Zdrojewski the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland and Wojciech Zajaczkowski, the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Russian Federation were present at the signing of the Memorandum. The decision to sign a Memorandum of Partnership, aimed at realizing joint projects in the area of research, training programs and academic visits, organizing and participating in seminars, conferences, and exhibits, and the publication of new materials was made by the Parties during a working meeting in Warsaw on November 27th, 2011. This partnership will primarily include research on the residence of the Romanovs in Poland, the collection of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski, and materials connected with Grand Prince Constantin Pavlovich and Poland. The Parties approved the participation of Hermitage employees in a conference entitled "The Lazienki Palace. New evidence, new meaning" in the Lazienki Palace Museum and a visit by the Council of the Lazienki Palace Museum to the State Hermitage Museum in May June 2012; an employee exchange training program is also expected to begin this year. The Parties will develop joint exhibition projects, including the concept and content of an exhibit dedicated to Classicism in Russia and Poland. |
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