Piotrovskie. Khraniteli kovchega - Norman D.

The book by Geraldine Norman - a well-known journalist, director of the Foundation of Friends of the Hermitage in Great Britain, advisor M.B. Piotrovsky tells the story of the life of two prominent figures of Russian culture - Mikhail Piotrovsky and his father Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky, by the fate of the leaders of the largest museum in Russia and the world - the State Hermitage. Boris Piotrovsky became director in 1964 and headed the museum for almost 26 years, and Mikhail Borisovich was appointed to this position in 1992 and holds it to this day. For more than half a century, the Piotrovsky dynasty has kept the traditions of the legendary museum, established ties with the West and the East and multiplied the wealth of world culture.

Geraldin Norman was born in Wales in 1940; grew up in Oxford and later earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oxford University. Sotheby's has systematically published prices for works of art. In 1969 she became a special correspondent - covered auction auctions. In 1971 she married the famous writer and playwright Frank Norman (died 1980). From 1987 to 1995 she worked as an art correspondent for The Independent. From 1999 to 2001 she was the director of the Hermitage Development Fund, from 2003 to 2005 she was editor-in-chief of the Hermitage magazine, and from 2003 to 2012 she managed the Hermitage Friends Fund in the UK. From 2014 to the present he was director of the Hermitage Friends Foundation in great Britain and an adviser to Mikhail Piotrovsky.