The museum’s origins date back to Russian Empress Catherine the Great, a lover of the arts who wrote plays and children’s ...

Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...

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SAINT-PETERSBURG, November 8. /TASS/. The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg now welcomes 4.5 million visitors per year, Hermitage Director General Mikhail Piotrovsky told TASS. The number ...

Do you know about the Hermitage, a National Historic Landmark in Ho-Ho-Kus? The staff is encouraging more people to learn ...

Russia’s State Hermitage Museum and UNESCO have inked a memorandum on cooperating to protect items of cultural value in armed conflict zones, in particular, in the Middle East PARIS, October 9.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, the State Hermitage Museum boasts of over three million items on view in six historic buildings, one of which was founded by Catherine the Great in 1764 and houses some ...