What is Irina Antonova?
[[File:Irina Antonova 03-06-2014.jpg|thumb|Irina Antonova]] '''Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova''' ({{lang-ru|Ирина Александровна Антонова}}) (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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Times|first=The Moscow|date=2020-03-20|title=On This Day in 1922 Irina Antonova Was Born|url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/20/on-this-day-in-1922-irina-antonova-was-born-a69701|access-date=2020-12-01|website=The Moscow Times|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name=GuardJul13>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/01/irina-antonova-pushkin-museum-putin|author=Miriam Elder|title=Doyenne of Russia's art world ousted from Pushkin Museum at 91|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=2 July 2013}}</ref> Antonova died of [[COVID-19]] at a [[Moscow]] hospital on 30 November 2020 at the age of 98.<ref>{{cite news |title=Умерла бывший директор Пушкинского музея Ирина Антонова |url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-55142002 |publisher=BBC |date=1 December 2020 |language=Russian}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Antonova, Irina}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Art historians]] [[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Moscow]] [[Category:Russian historians]] {{bio-stub}}