Irina Antonova

Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova () (20 March 1922 – 30 November 2020) was a Russian art historian. He was a Director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013. She was the oldest and the longest serving director of a major art museum in the world. 

Antonova was honored with the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the President of the Pushkin Museum.

Antonova died of COVID-19 at a Moscow hospital on 30 November 2020 at the age of 98.

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