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Irina Antonova, who was director of the Pushkin for over 50 years, has died, aged 98
Irina Alexandrovna Antonova, the president of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, died yesterday evening at the age of 98, Marina Loshak, the museum’s director, told the Tass news agency. Russian news agencies, citing the museum’s press service, reported that she died of coronavirus (Covid-19) in addition to heart disease.
Her life at the museum spanned the second half of the 20th century. It began in 1945 under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as the Second World War was ending and the Red Army was seizing art from Nazi Germany—a significant portion of which was hidden in the Pushkin’s repositories until in re-emerged under her watch in the 1990s.
In 1961, she was appointed director of the museum, a position that she held until 2013 when she made a controversial appeal to President Vladimir Putin to reunite in Moscow the separated parts of the pre-revolutionary art collections o
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Irina Antonova, Head of Moscow’s Pushkin Museum, 1922–2020
Irina Antonova, who headed the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow for 52 years, has died at the age of 98 from complications caused by COVID-19. Her death was confirmed by the press service of the museum, where she served as director from 1961 to 2013. Dubbed the grande dame of Russian art, Antonova’s leadership of the museum was considered by many as the ‘golden age’ of the institution, during which she most notably brought the Mona Lisa to Moscow and showed modern masterpieces from the collection that had been long hidden from the Soviet public.
Antonova was born in Moscow in 1922 and spent part of her childhood in Berlin until the Nazis came to power. During the war she worked as a nurse at a hospital in Moscow, while studying art history at the Moscow State University. In 1945, she graduated with honours and joined the staff at the Pushkin Museum. She witnessed the arrival of the entire collection of the