the preparation of works of art for evacuation and the all-female battalion that defended the palace against Lenin’s Bolsheviks. A number of the prints only entered the Hermitage archives in the ...

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 ...

The Hermitage bathed the façade of the Winter Palace in red light for the opening ... history are on display,” Piotrovsky tells The Art Newspaper. They include the tsar’s diary entries ...

To take this challenge almost to the point of absurdity, Sukorov and company had to accomplish their single shot in one take, because the Hermitage ... The Winter Palace, of course, served both ...

The Winter Palace, a former Russian royal palace in St. Petersburg, is now the State Hermitage Musuem. She was, by her own description, “gluttonous” when it came to acquiring art and she spent ...

They remain a part of the Hermitage's history, no less essential than its Monet paintings or its ancient gold, or the splendid halls of the Winter Palace.

More notably, in 1852, Nicholas opened up his grandmother's art galleries in the Hermitage wings -- the function the Winter Palace performs to this day. After Tsar Alexander II was assassinated by ...

Hong Yingli, founder of the Hermitage Art Foundation, said in the speech at the forum that the cooperation is the first attempt of the Winter Palace to enter China and will become a bridge for ...

officially announced a partnership between the Winter Palace and the Beijing Hermitage Art Foundation. In the future, the Hermitage exhibits will utilize modern technology to bring art treasures ...