From left: President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin awards Russian philologist and art expert Dmitry Likhachev the Order For Merit to the Fatherland 2nd Class for outstanding scholarly achievements and the development of Russian culture.20.12.1996#6328024
From left: President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin awards the Order For Merit to the Fatherland 2nd Class to Russian philologist and art expert Dmitry Likhachev for outstanding scholarly achievements and the development of Russian culture.20.12.1996#6328021
A visit of an Icelandic delegation to the USSR. President of Iceland Vigdis Finnbogadottir, and State Hermitage Museum director Boris Piotrovsky, left, at the opening of an exhibition of Northern Renaissance paintings at the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.20.06.1990#8338860
A visit of an Icelandic delegation to the USSR. President of Iceland Vigdis Finnbogadottir, second left, and State Hermitage Museum director Boris Piotrovsky, right, at the opening of an exhibition of Northern Renaissance paintings at the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.20.06.1990#8338856
Composer Aram Khachaturyan during a rehearsal of Symphony No. 14 with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.29.09.1969#5640341
Soviet composer Aram Khachaturyan, left, on the stage of the Grand Hall of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow.15.02.1967#6421085
Director Georgy Tovstonogov and actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky starring in Idiot. Gorky Leningrad Drama Theater (now the Tovstonogov Russian State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater).04.04.1958#5486570
Georgy Tovstonogov (1915-1989), Chief Director of the Gorky Leningrad Drama Theater (now the Tovstonogov Russian State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater), in his office.04.04.1958#5486560
Aram Khachaturyan, professor of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, composer and conductor.10.12.1955#5943831
Vissarion Shebalin, Soviet composer, National Artist of RSFSR, winner of two Stalin Prizes 1st class.10.12.1955#5943826
Antonina Nezhdanova, National Artist of the USSR, opera singer, doctor of art studies.10.06.1949#6059955
