Photo Report about Opening of the Exhibition

The display is entirely devoted to the Hermitage, one of the world’s largest museums, that is the curator of the exhibition. At the opening ceremony, speeches were made by the General Director of the State Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the commissioner of the pavilion and Rector of the Saint Petersburg State Academic Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Semyon Mikhailovsky, the President of the Russian Federation’s advisor on cultural matters, Vladimir Tolstoi, and the Russian ambassador to Italy, Sergei Razov.

The opening ceremony in the Russian Pavilion drew more than 1,000 people, many of them journalists, representatives of museums and galleries, artists, curators, friends and partners of the Hermitage from Russia and European countries. In the first days when it was officially functioning, the exhibition attracted over 10,000 visitors.