April 6, 2018. From right: President Vladimir Putin, Art Director and Chief Conductor of the Novaya Rossiya Symphony Orchestra Yury Bashmet and Mariinsky Theater Artistic Director Valery Gergiev after the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470598
April 6, 2018. Mariinsky Theater Artistic Director Valery Gergiev after the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470592
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and composer Alexei Rybnikov, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470590
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470588
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470587
April 6, 2018. Vladimir Urin, director of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, before the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470586
April 6, 2018. Soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Denis Rodkin before the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470581
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre Denis Rodkin, right, at the ceremony to present 2017 presidential prizes to young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470578
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and artistic director of the St. Petersburg State Pushkin Theater Center Vladimir Retsepter, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470577
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and composer Alexei Rybnikov, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470574
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and composer Alexei Rybnikov, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470573
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and animator Dina Velikovskaya at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470561
April 6, 2018. Russian ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470560
April 6, 2018. Russian ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470559
April 6, 2018. Russian ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470557
April 6, 2018. Russian ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470556
April 6, 2017. Animator Dina Velikovskaya at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470551
April 6, 2018. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470550
April 6, 2018. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470549
April 6, 2018. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470548
April 6, 2018. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470547
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin presents presidential prizes to young culture professionals and 2017 presidential prizes for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470537
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin presents presidential prizes to young culture professionals and 2017 presidential prizes for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470540
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin presents presidential prizes to young culture professionals and 2017 presidential prizes for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470538
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin presents presidential prizes to young culture professionals and 2017 presidential prizes for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470536
April 6, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin and soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Denis Rodkin, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470474
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and director of the Nizhny Novgorod boarding school for deaf children Vladimir Chikishev at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470473
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and animator Dina Velikovskaya at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470472
April 6, 2018. Sofya Kondratyeva, head of the Museology Department at the Divnogorye National Architectural-Archaeological Museum-Reserve, at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470470
April 6, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mariinsky Theater Artistic Director Valery Gergiev after the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470445
April 6, 2018. Animator Dina Velikovskaya at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470436
April 6, 2018. Vladimir Chikishev, director of of the Nizhny Novgorod boarding school for deaf children, at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470435
April 6, 2018. Artistic director of the State Pushkin Theater Center in St. Petersburg Vladimir Retsepter at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470434
April 6, 2018. Composer Alexei Rybnikov at the 2017 presentation of presidential prizes for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470433
April 6, 2018. Secretary of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art Vladimir Tolstoy, Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky and Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, from left, before the ceremony to present 2017 presidential prizes to young culture professionals and for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470432
April 6, 2018. Russian ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova, artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiyev, pianist Denis Matsuyev and artistic director of the Pushkin Drama Theater - Aleksandrinsky Theater Valery Fokin, from left, before the ceremony to present 2017 presidential prizes to young culture professionals and for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470431
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin speaks at the ceremony to present 2017 presidential prizes to young culture professionals and for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470430
April 6, 2018. Ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiyev before the ceremony to present 2017 presidential prizes to young culture professionals and for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470429
April 6, 2018. Deputy prime Minister Olga Golodets and animator Dina Velikovskaya, from left foreground, before the ceremony to present 2017 presidential prizes to young culture professionals and for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470428
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin presents presidential prizes to young culture professionals and 2017 presidential prizes for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470427
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin presents presidential prizes to young culture professionals and 2017 presidential prizes for writing and art for children.06.04.2018#5470426
April 6, 2018. From left: Art Director and Chief Conductor of the Novaya Rossiya Symphony Orchestra Yury Bashmet, ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova and Mariinsky Theater Artistic Director Valery Gergiev before the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470425
April 6, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Chikishev, director of of the Nizhny Novgorod boarding school for deaf children, third right, in the back, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470423
April 6, 2018. Vladimir Chikishev, director of of the Nizhny Novgorod boarding school for deaf children, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470422
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and director of the Nizhny Novgorod boarding school for deaf children Vladimir Chikishev, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470421
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and composer Alexei Rybnikov, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470415
April 6, 2018. Composer Alexei Rybnikov at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470414
April 6, 2018. Artistic director of the State Pushkin Theater Center in St. Petersburg Vladimir Retsepter at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470413
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and artistic director of the State Pushkin Theater Center in St. Petersburg Vladimir Retsepter, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470412
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and head of the Museum Activity Department at the Divnogorye Museum Reserve Sofya Kondratyeva at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470411
April 6, 2018. Soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Denis Rodkin at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470410
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and Bolshoi Theater soloist Denis Rodkin, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470409
April 6, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin and soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Denis Rodkin, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470408
April 6, 2018. Head of the Museum Activity Department at the Divnogorye Museum Reserve Sofya Kondratyeva at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470407
April 6, 2018. Animator Dina Velikovskaya at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470406
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and animator Dina Velikovskaya at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals.06.04.2018#5470405
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin talks to culture professionals after the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470404
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin speaks at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470401
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and director of the Nizhny Novgorod boarding school for deaf children Vladimir Chikishev, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470399
April 6, 2018. President Vladimir Putin and composer Alexei Rybnikov, right, at the 2017 awards ceremony for young culture professionals for writing and art for children and young people.06.04.2018#5470398