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On 29 August 2001, as part of his official visit to the Russian Federation at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, King Abdullah II ibn Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan visited the State Hermitage together with his wife Queen Rania. The King of Jordan was accompanied on his trip to St. Petersburg by a representative delegation. In the city the King laid flowers at the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square, visited the State Hermitage and Central Naval Museum, and met members of the St. Petersburg municipal government. The excursion for the honoured guest in the Hermitage was conducted by Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the museum. King Abdullah II was visiting the Hermitage for the first time. He expressed his admiration for the Jordan Staircase and the state rooms of the Winter Palace. The royal couple visited the Knights' Hall where the collection of Western European arms and armour of the 15th to 17th centuries is displayed. The Hermitage director showed the King eastern weapons sent as gifts from eastern monarchs to the Russian emperors. The monarch viewed the collection of French 19th- and 20th-century art with great interest. After the excursion His Highness Abdullah II ibn Hussein and Mikhail Piotrovsky conversed in Arabic for an hour. |
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