Anna Petrakova graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg in 2000. She defended her Ph D in 2004 ('Questions of composition in ancient Greek vase-painting in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, using the example of drinking cups'). Habilitation in 2013 (The Methodology of complex art-historical study of Athenian vase-painting: theory and practice, using the example of the Hermitage collection'). Since 2004 - research curator at the State Hermitage Museum, curator of Athenian pottery. Scholarly interests: Athenian black and red-figured vases, attribution and interpretation painting, methodology, restoration and conservation, history of collecting, study and perception of vase-painting. Author of four volumes of the CVA and more than fifty articles on the study of Athenian vases. Since 2009 - Associate Professor at St Petersburg University of Culture and Art.