“To appoint Piotrovsky Mikhail Borisovich as the General Director of the State Hermitage State Federal Budgetary Institution of Culture for a term of 3 years, relieving him of his post,” RIA Novosti quotes the press service of the government.
Piotrovsky has led the Hermitage since 1992. In 2016, the contract with him was extended until 2020.
Earlier, Nation News reported that a new hall of antique ceramics was opened in the Hermitage.