Press conference in Moscow on the transfer of symbols of Russian statehood to the Hermitage

Russia. Moscow. State Herald Master of Russia Georgy Vadimovich Vilinbakhov, Deputy Director General of the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Mikhail Solomonovich Gusman and Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky (from left to right) during a press conference at ITAR-TASS regarding the transfer of the symbols of Russian statehood, the State Flag and the Standard of the President of the Russian Federation, to the Hermitage. Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin signed a decree on the Heraldic Council under the President of the Russian Federation and an order to transfer the state regalia of the Russian Federation for permanent storage to the Hermitage, which was the founder of the study of heraldry in Russia. Boris Kavashkin/TASS