Irina Antonova
Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova (Russian: Ирина Александровна Антонова) (20 March 1922 – 30 November 2020) was a Russian art historian. He was a Director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013. She was the oldest and the longest serving director of a major art museum in the world.[1]
Antonova was honored with the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the President of the Pushkin Museum.[2]
Antonova died of COVID-19 at a Moscow hospital on 30 November 2020 at the age of 98.[3]
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Irina Antonova with Vladimir Putin, March 2002
References
- ↑ Times, The Moscow (2020-03-20). "On This Day in 1922 Irina Antonova Was Born". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ Miriam Elder (2 July 2013). Doyenne of Russia's art world ousted from Pushkin Museum at 91. London. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/01/irina-antonova-pushkin-museum-putin.
- ↑ (in Russian) Умерла бывший директор Пушкинского музея Ирина Антонова. BBC. 1 December 2020. https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-55142002.