"Irina Aleksandrovna - Lady in the highest sense of the word"
Director of the Pushkin Pushkin GMI, 85 years old, director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Irina Alexandrovna Antonova, is 85 years old today. Her whole life is connected with the Pushkin Museum. In 1945, immediately after the end of the Permanent Faculty of Moscow State University, she was invited to work in the PHMIA. Specializing in the Italian Renaissance, she simultaneously studied in graduate school at the museum.