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name: "Mikhail Piotrovsky"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mikhail-piotrovsky"
fi1m_id: "mikhail-piotrovsky"
tmdb_id: 2089650
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 December 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T18:00:49.781223+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mikhail Piotrovsky

## Identity

Mikhail Piotrovsky

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mikhail-piotrovsky
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mikhail-piotrovsky
- **TMDB ID:** 2089650
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2089650

Actor. Born 9 December 1944 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 December 1944, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2089650

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Russian Ark*](https://film.one/film/russian-ark.md) (78)

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## Biography

Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky is a Russian Orientalist and museum director. Born in Yerevan in 1944, he studied at Leningrad State University and obtained a doctorate in Arabic linguistics. He succeeded his father, Boris Piotrovsky, as director of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg in 1992.

Piotrovsky has overseen the museum for more than three decades, expanding its international presence through partnerships and exhibitions. He appears as himself, the Hermitage director, in Alexander Sokurov's *Russian Ark* (2002).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hermitagemuseum.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Russian Ark* (2002), Fi1m 78, as Hermitage director — [page](https://film.one/film/russian-ark.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Russian Ark* (2002), as Hermitage director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/russian-ark.md)

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