Piotrovsky, Boris

Date born: 1908

Place Born: St. Petersburg, Russia

Date died: 1990

Place died: Leningrad, USSR

Archaeologist and historian of Russian and Near Eastern (Egypt, Assyria) art. Piotrovsky graduated from Leningrad University with a degree from the historical philology department. After receiving his degree, he joined the staff of the History of Material Culture, and went on to become a curator at the State Hermitage Museum in 1931, where he would publish his research on the history of the Hermitage's collections. As an archaeologist, Piotrovsky led expeditions to Nubia and the Kamir blur. His research on the art and cultures of the Scythians, and the ancient Caucasian states, gained Piotrovsky entry into the USSR Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the Warsaw Academy, the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and the American Archaeological Institute. LMW

Home Country: Russia

Sources: The Dictionary of Art

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