Invited to the opening ceremony of the exhibition:

• O. Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation;
• V. Medinskiy, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.

• G. Pirumov, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation;
• G. Ordzhonikidze, Executive Secretary of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO;
• M. Shaimiev, the first President of Tatarstan;
• I. Albin, vice-governor of St. Petersburg;
• V. Tsvetnov, director of the Department of State Protection of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture of Russia;
• M. Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage
• S. Makarov, Head of the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Monuments of History and Culture of St. Petersburg;
• I. Vorotnikova, scientific secretary of the State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve "The Moscow Kremlin";
• E. Bogdanova, director of the State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve "Kizhi".