The head of the State Hermitage Museum now has the full set of Orders for Merit to the Fatherland ST. PETERSBURG, December 24. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded the Order for Merit to the Fatherland, first class, to Director General of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky. A decree on bestowing the award was signed two weeks earlier, on Piotrovsky’s eightieth anniversary. The head of the State Hermitage Museum now has the full set of Orders for Merit to the