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Irina Antonova

1922 - 2020

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Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova (Russian: Ирина Александровна Антонова; 20 March 1922 – 30 November 2020) was a Soviet and Russian art historian who served as a Director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013, making her the oldest and the longest serving director of a major art museum in the world. Among her many awards and decorations are the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the President of the Pushkin Museum, a ceremonial post. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irina Antonova is the 466th most popular historian (up from 487th in 2019), the 1,965th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,118th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Irina Antonova ranks 466 out of 561. Before her are Mary Beard, Aron Gurevich, Anvar Chingizoglu, Eadmer, Mikhail Artamonov, and Herwig Wolfram. After her are Stanley Morison, René Rémond, Richard J. Evans, Sara Ashurbeyli, Miguel León-Portilla, and Ji Xianlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Irina Antonova ranks 334. Before her are Stoyanka Mutafova, Rory Calhoun, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Blaga Aleksova, Damon Knight, and Bhimsen Joshi. After her are John Eisenhower, Roscoe Lee Browne, Elsa Joubert, Kathryn Grayson, Milton H. Greene, and María Luisa Bemberg. Among people deceased in 2020, Irina Antonova ranks 521. Before her are Albert Salvadó, Norman Hunter, Lorenza Mazzetti, Jorge Llopart, Monique Mercure, and Alki Zei. After her are Marion Hänsel, Noël Vandernotte, Slaven Zambata, Giovanni Battista Rabino, Wolfgang Clement, and Julio Anguita.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Irina Antonova ranks 1,965 out of 3,761. Before her are Mikhail Artamonov (1898), Yevdokiya Mekshilo (1931), Islam Makhachev (1991), Fyodor Cherenkov (1959), Larisa Petrik (1949), and Artur Yusupov (1960). After her are Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (1913), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Alexander Rosenbaum (1951), Yury Sharov (1939), Alexander Dityatin (1957), and Sergey Nikolsky (1905).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Irina Antonova ranks 19. Before her are Boris Rybakov (1908), Cyril Toumanoff (1913), Boris Chicherin (1828), Isabella Bashmakova (1921), Aron Gurevich (1924), and Mikhail Artamonov (1898). After her are Timofey Granovsky (1813), Vasily Struve (1889), and Andrei Lankov (1963).

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