A Word from the Director

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• September 10, 2024

  Between the World and Home

• August 29, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: “Let artificial intelligence play its own games and stay out of ours.”

• August 28, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Museums are a matrix for patriotic feelings

• August 26, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: “We were copied from Palmyra, which is one of the chief models for Classical architecture.”

• August 19, 2024

  Academician Mikhail Piotrovsky: The Hermitage is an encyclopaedia of world culture written in Russian

• August 15, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The possibility to digitize works of art is a boon of our time

• July 31, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: New meanings need to be invested in tourism to make it more complex

• June 13, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: “It’s impossible to cancel Russian culture.”

• June 6, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Reconstruction of the world order is based on the foundations of culture

• May 29, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: We are living in a situation where culture has become the main thing

• April 24, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The museum of a small town can have all its history concentrated in it

• April 12, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: “The unity of Russia’s space is supported by churches and museums”

• March 27, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The latest technologies help us to demonstrate what we do

• February 28, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The Interplay with the Virtual Sphere is an Important Part of the Museum

• February 9, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: “Oriental Studies bring together the most diverse cultures”

• January 31, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The Siege of Leningrad taught us a lot and we need to find various ways of remembering it

• January 10, 2024

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Even if there are many truths, one needs to retain confidence in one’s own rightness

• December 27, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Every museum should have a certain degree of autonomy

• December 11, 2023

  Piotrovsky to RBK: “Our task is to delicately explain the world and to have the proper spirit.”

• November 29, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The new world should be built on the principle of cultural sovereignty

• October 31, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The Hermitage Days were conceived as a narrative about the museum

• September 27, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Heritage cannot be the property of any one people

• August 30, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Memory is more important than all material assets

• July 26, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Africa as a New Reality

• June 28, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: A Response to a Challenge of the Times

• June 27, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: “We make people think.”

• May 31, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Museums did not seize or appropriate anything

• May 15, 2023

  “To Russia no-one is alien”

• May 15, 2023

  The Hermitage is handing over the shrine of Alexander Nevsky to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery

• May 15, 2023

  Digital and human: conflict is not inevitable

• April 26, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The motto is cultural immunity

• April 7, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky on the Hermitage’s Most Interesting Exhibitions

• April 1, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The dialogue of cultures can also take the form of wars of memory. But the choice has to be made

• March 29, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: We’re changing our vector of attention

• March 1, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Museum Satellites Are Changing Orbits

• January 25, 2023

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The Past Teaches and Prepares Us for the Future

• December 28, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Beneath the Banner of Political Correctness

• November 25, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Why does the museum need expansion?

• September 28, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Academic DNA originated in Saint Petersburg

• July 25, 2022

  “You can’t cancel culture”

• June 29, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Museums have few competitors

• June 22, 2022

  Why it’s necessary to be with one’s country when it is making a historic turn and choice. Mikhail Piotrovsky answers

• June 20, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky spoke about the international development of the Hermitage in a time of sanctions

• June 7, 2022

  “RESPECTFULLY AND WITH LOVE”

• May 25, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The Experience of Museums for All Times

• April 27, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Cancel culture is a hysterical phenomenon

• March 30, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Cultural Connections as Medicine

• March 2, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Traditional Values Do Have a Defence

• January 26, 2022

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Not Wars of Memory, but a Dialogue of Cultures

• December 30, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Expert Appraisal Is a Delicate Matter

• December 1, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Why we need clouds

• October 27, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: A Hand as a Talisman

• September 29, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: When innovations aren’t for the money

• August 24, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Why we need to keep talking about halva

• July 28, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Using the Templates of the Pandemic

• July 22, 2021

  “Our financial issues are measured in billions”: How the Hermitage is entering the NFT art market

• July 18, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky's interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station: “The Third Hermitage. The opening of the Hermitage–Ural Centre in Yekaterinburg”

• June 30, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Art is a good litmus test

• May 26, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Where confrontation comes from

• May 1, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky's interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station on the programme “Time Not Gone By”

• April 28, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. The Therapeutic Effect of Culture

• April 16, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky’s interview on the Echo of Moscow radio station. Vitaly Dymarsky’s programme Editorial Board

• March 31, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Overcoming Separation

• February 24, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: War Is Won by the Teacher

• February 7, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky's interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station on the programme “Time Not Gone By”

• January 20, 2021

  The Luxury of Solitude

• January 20, 2021

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: What Is a Perfect Storm

• December 28, 2020

  “We Keep Our Bridges Open”. Interview for EastEast Paper

• December 9, 2020

  The Derbent Appeal

• December 2, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Cultural Heritage under Siege

• November 13, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: War belongs to the life of animals, culture to the life of people. An interview with the Mir TV channel

• November 5, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: How can freedom be combined with restrictions?

• October 21, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky’s interview with the radio station Echo of Moscow: The life of the museum in the time of COVID – exhibitions, current and future

• August 26, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Casting for a New Life

• July 3, 2020

  In Praise of Distancing

• June 30, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Why we need the flexibility of nomads

• June 19, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Russia is drawn by a troika – Peter I, Alexander III and Catherine

• June 18, 2020

  Piotrovsky: Culture is as much as symbol of Russia as the coat-of-arms and the flag

• June 3, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Luxury accessible to all

• June 9, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: Ticket prices for the Hermitage will not go up

• May 20, 2020

  “On the power of art in a time of hysteria”

• April 21, 2020

  “Cultured Isolation” – a museum without visitors and without queues

• April 11, 2020

  To the Hermitage for a Stroll

• April 8, 2020

  The Iceberg Online

• April 1, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Cultured Isolation

• February 26, 2020

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Revering authenticity

• January 22, 2020

  Piotrovsky: One should take pride not so much in having a “good” history as a complex one

• December 9, 2019

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Custodian

• December 9, 2019

  A portrait against the background of museum and city. Mikhail Piotrovsky at 75.

• December 9, 2019

  The Piotrovsky Code

• December 9, 2019

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: “Sadly, in our time people have become more primitive.”

• November 18, 2019

  The Madonna versus the Peacock

• October 30, 2019

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: How to take our culture to the world.

• October 4, 2019

  A museum's place is midway between a temple and Disneyland

• September 23, 2019

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: There were exchanges between Russian and American museums even during the Cold War

• September 9, 2019

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: The Hermitage is finishing the restoration of the shrine of Alexander Nevsky

• August 30, 2019

  Rembrandt is eternal; contemporary art is a carnival: a dialogue with Mikhail Piotrovsky and Alexander Sokurov

• August 28, 2019

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: A city where all religions live

• August 1, 2019

  Mikhail Piotrovsky: “A museum’s success is not measured in visitor numbers.”

• July 31, 2019

  Mikhail Piotrovsky. Without renouncing or cursing