The message reads, in part:
"Your life and career path, filled with significant events and striking unforgettable encounters, is rightly regarded as a worthy example of staying true to one's calling. As head of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, you are making a significant contribution to the preservation of our priceless cultural heritage. With your inexhaustible creative energy, enthusiasm and love, you are working to develop museology, and are engaged in ever challenging and interesting educational projects. You are making a genuinely unique contribution to the development of international humanitarian cooperation. These fruitful and diverse activities have earned you the highest authority and respect both in Russia and far beyond its borders."