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About Boris Piotrovsky
Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky, also Piotrovskii was a Soviet Russian academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist who studied the ancient civilizations of Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia. He is best known as a key figure in the study of the Urartian civilization of the southern Caucasus. From 1964 until his death, Piotrovsky was also Director of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
Everything about Boris Piotrovsky →- Occupation
- anthropologist, art historian, archaeologist
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
- Born
- February 1, 1908, 1908
- Died
- October 15, 1990, 1990