Boris Piotrovsky

In early 1920-ies, in Bolshevik Petersburg, at the specialist of Egypt, Natalya Flittner, a group of young men were admiringly discussing the most recent sensational discoveries in archaeology. The nearly untouched tumb of Tutankhamun was found in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. None of the young men could ever think that in about two decades it would be them to clean the dust off the history to bring the world to the knowledge of yet another culture, no less old than that of the Egyptian – the culture of Urartu. That young man was Boris Pietrovsky, twelveth director of Hermitage.

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