Irina Antonova has been director of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow for 41 years. “Such longevity would be remarkable anywhere — even in the United States Senate — but Russia is a particular case. Mrs. Antonova’s career at the Pushkin, which began one month before the end of World War II, has survived Stalinism, democracy and everything in between, including unresolved disputes over looted and lost art.”