WHO WE ARE
As the other International Hermitage Friends organizations , located in Canada, England, Netherland and USA, Italian Association Friends of Hermitage has the main aim to support the artistic heritage of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, in order to promote it and value it as it should be done all over the world. To reach this purpose the Association organizes many activities, like fundraising, exhibitions, management of new donations, publishing productions, in order to have the possibility to restore the artworks preserved in the Hermitage Museum (having a special consideration for Italian artworks there exhibited).
In detail, our Association works to promote initiatives attempting to make the Italian and Russian public closer to the understanding of the deep interrelations linking their two countries, that have always been in the past as deep as nowadays. To do this, creates and organizes educational and cultural events (meetings with significance people, conferences, lessons on specific topics and travels).
In fact, Hermitage itself is one of the most relevant proof of the rich exchange that has always characterized the two countries. Being aware that culture is an important vehicle to create relations, the identity of a civility and to share knowledge, Association Friends of Hermitage insert itself as a qualified partner developing exchanging occasions between Italy and Russia, also taking into consideration the economical field. The favored branches the Association worksin are: cultural tourism, tourism related to our food tradition, research of new technologies applied to the cultural heritage protection and esteem.
In the close future the Association would like to create an institutional space for shows, concerts, debates and educational activities.
Association Friends of Ermitage is favorably opened to the contribution of anyone who cares: artistic experts, collectors, sponsors, enthusiastic single businessmen, companies interested in Russian culture and world.
Any proposal of collaboration is welcomed and will be discussed together, as an important contribution to expand our Association.
Governing Council
- Francesco Bigazzi
- Mario Bigazzi
- Roberto Chinello
- Giovanni Cianferoni
- Consuelo de Gara
- Diletta Frescobaldi
- Laura Lodigiani
- Stefania Pavan
Friends
Isabella Aggazzotti/ Giorgio Albertazzi / Elena Angioletti / Paolo Aureli / Felicità Badii / Alessandro Barcellona / Patrizia Bartolini / Amedeo Bigazzi / Anastasia Bigazzi / Ekaterina Bigazzi / Luca Bigazzi / Prospero Bigazzi / Eva Boguslawska / Alberto Boralevi / Maria Brunori / Barbara Cazzaroli / Andrea Chmielinski Bigazzi / Roberto Cianni / Olivia Corradini / Giuseppe Cottafavi / Fernando Sebastian Cremaschi / Rogelio Cremaschi / Valeria Cuoghi / Pietro De Marco / Daniela Deho' / Elisabetta Del Brenna / Anna Del Brenna / Antonio Di Tommaso / Roberto Diamanti / Riccardo Diamanti / Rossana Dini / Margherita Domini / Daria Dori / Davide Dotti / Adriana Dracos / Lucia Evangelisti / Lorenzo Fonda / Mauro Franchi / Maddalena Gentile / Anna Kozarzewska / Elisabeth Krause / Anna La Rosa / Antonietta Lauria / Bruno Liberatore / Jadwiga Lopez Majano / Nicoletta Lunardi / Roberto Malfatti / Orietta Malvisi Moretti / Valeria Malcontenti / Benedetta Mancino / Lucia Mannini / Silvio Marchetti / Giovanna Masini / Chiara Martini / Stefania Martini / Stefania Migaldi / Lucia Minunno / Paolo Moretti / Antonella Maria Nannicini / Guido Maria Nizzola / Giuseppe Panzironi / Cheti Petri / Giovanna Petrini / Annamaria Petrioli Tofani / Leonardo Piazza / Monica Pignatti / Carlo Pineider / Alice Pisapia / Dolores Pisapia / Conforta Polvani / Giovanni Polvani / Maria Stella Reali / Enrico Reffo / Giuseppe Rosati / Gregorio Savio / Renata Sardi / Adriana Silvia Sartor / Ruth Schmid / Teresa Maka Skonsa / Mario Tassi / Donatella Tesi / Tatiana Timofeeva / Roberto Troubetskoy / Michela Vichi / Massimo Zolli / Federica Zuanni / Ettorina Geninat / Francesca Pesce / Elena Pesce / Mariangela Fassino / Fabrizio Ceccarini / Donatella Fabbris / Carlo Alberto Giunti / Maria Paola Iacopozzi / Paolo Paggini / Niccoletta Giusti / Anna Maria Barbi / Alba Di Grazia / Olga Campolieti / Franca Arduini / Paola Arduini / Manuela Papucci / Paolo Merlini Manzoni / Alessandra Cateni / Giuliana Giuliani / Caterina Zini / Ilaria Sebregondi / Nives Picco / Gaetano De Gregorio / Rossella Colabelli Gisoldi / Olimpia Cuomo / Domenico Sterpa / Beatriz Cifuentes / Maria Cristina Faccanoni / Vanina Marini / Gianfranco Michelini / Apice srl / Giovanni Polvani / Adriana Silva Sartor / Mario Tassi / Giovanni Tesconi