By a twist of fate, Prince Olensky, a scholar of art history and the director of the Hermitage, is entrusted with the mission of preserving the museum's collection for Russia during the October days of 1917.
Director
Teodor Vulfovich
Nikolai Kryukov
Nikolay Ilyich Podvoyskiy
Vladimir Mashchenko
Yuriy Kayurov
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Ivan Lapikov
Dmitriy Olenskiy
Vladimir Tatosov
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov
Gennadiy Yukhtin
Vsevolod Safonov
Oleksandr Hai
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy
Sergey Kulagin
Leonid Belozorovich
Vladimir Belokurov
Valentin Bryleev
Maya Bulgakova
Aleksandr Degtyar