Director’s Choice series is an international project of Scala Arts &Heritage Publishers (UK) in which directors of major world museums make their own choice of exhibits that occupy, in their opinion, a special place in museum’s collection, and tell about them.
Books based on the collections of the Albertina Gallery, the Alte Pinakothek and many others have already found their readership. The choice of the Hermitage director is the first edition in Russia within the framework of this highly successful international project. Sometimes paradoxical but invariably interesting choice of Mikhail Piotrovsky, who has been the Hermitage’s director for 25 years, will take you to a singular trip along the halls of the Hermitage and acquaint you with the world famous Western European paintings as well as not so widely known works of Classical, Islamic and Russian art. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Hermitage: Director's Choice (Mikhail Piotrovsky)