Farewell to D.S. Likhachev

Russia. Saint Petersburg. Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (center) at the coffin during the farewell ceremony for Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the USSR State Prize, Stalin Prize of the second degree, State Prize of the Russian Federation, holder of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, "For Services to the Fatherland" of the 2nd degree, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Soviet and Russian philologist, professor Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev in the Tauride Palace. Yuri Belinsky/TASS