President to inaugurate Exhibition on Russo-Maltese connections

President to inaugurate Exhibition on Russo-Maltese connections

His Excellency The President, Dr. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, will be inaugurating the exhibition "Three Centuries of Russo-Maltese Connections," on Saturday 7th November 1998. This exhibition, which will be staged at the Grand Council Chamber of the Palace, will be open to the public between the 10th and the 30th November,1998.

An important delegation will be coming from Moscow for this occasion. It will include high executives from the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, from the Russian Centre for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation under the Government of the Russian Federation, and also from the Government of the Moscow Region.

The official relations between Russia and Malta were established in 1698 when Boyar Boris Petrovich Scheremetev delivered to Grand Master Perellos a special letter from the Russian Tsar Peter I. The progress in these relations will be illustrated in sequence by a series of exhibits starting with the portrait of Scheremetev, painted especially for this occasion by the Russian painter Vladimir Sibrin and ending with a photo of Malta taken by a Russian cosmonaut from outer space.

A special press-preview will be organised on Monday, 9th November 1998, at 1700 hours.