On October 28th, the Russian Academy of Sciences announced the results of a customary election of members and associate members at a general assembly.
Mikhail Piotrovsky, co-founder and a chairman of the Board of Trustees of the European University at St. Petersburg as well as General Director of the Hermitage Museum, was elected as a member of the historical-philological division of the RAS, working specifically with history.
The previous election for new members of the RAS took place in 2011. The following election was originally to take place in 2013, but it was canceled due to reforms which had already begun in the Academy of Sciences.
We join our colleagues in the Hermitage Museum in congratulating Mikhail Piotrovsky upon this well-deserved honor!