Irina Antonova

Russian art historian, director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (1922–2020)

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Lived 1922–2020, aged 98

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1922–2020
Aged 98
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Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova was a Soviet and Russian art historian who served as a Director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013, making her the oldest and the longest serving director of a major art museum in the world. Among her many awards and decorations are the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the President of the Pushkin Museum, a ceremonial post.

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State Prize of the Russian Federation

State Prize of the Russian Federation

Commander of the Legion of Honour
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Order of the October Revolution
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Lev Nikolaev Gold Medal
Decoration "For Beneficence"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class
Jubilee Medal "75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Order of the Rising Sun
Knight of the Legion of Honour