Conference Heraldry in the past, present and future
The participants of the conference devoted to the 20th anniversary of
the Heraldry Seminar were addressed by the director of the State Hermitage
Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky. The reports of the researchers of the Museum
and of the leading specialists in heraldry from Moscow, St. Petersburg,
Tver and Udmurtia were devoted to the problems of development of heraldry
as an auxiliary historical discipline. The topics touched upon during
the conference covered a great period of time from the Middle Ages to
the XXth century.
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