Like father, like son: Piotrovsky to head Hermitage through 2020

Russia’s Culture Ministry took to Instagram to announce that it has extended the contract of Mikhail Piotrovsky, the general director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, for another four years. The post, hashtagged Hermitage (#эрмитаж), expressed congratulations to the museum and wishes for “many major exhibitions and new projects”. By 2020, Piotrovsky, who is 71, will have presided over one of the world’s greatest mu