“Hermitage” Masterpiece Display Planned At National Gallery in 2006

DISPLAY OF ONE OF “HERMITAGE’S” MASTERPIECES PLANNED TO ORGANIZED AT
ARMENIAN NATIONAL GALLERY THIS YEAR

YEREVAN, MARCH 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Within the framework of Year of
Armenia in Russia, exhibitions of Armenian painters will be organized
at the “Hermitage” and at the Russian Museum and one of the
masterpieces kept in the “Hermitage” will be displayed at the Armenian
National Gallery. An agreement about is was reached at the March 24
meeting of RA Minister of Culture and Youth Affairs Gevorg Gevorgian
and “Hermitage” state museum Director, corresponding member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Piotrovski. As Noyan Tapan was
informed from the Press Service of RA Ministry of Culture and Youth
Affairs, the “Hermitage” Director proposed holding joint conferences
in Yerevan and St Petersburg on the occasion of the 100th anniversary
of oriental scientist, archaeologist, “Hermitage” Director of many
years Boris Piotrovski.