Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great ... basis of the Hermitage Museum.

Petersburg, the course will examine how Catherine the Great, a self-proclaimed art and ... We’ll explore how every subsequent tsar fashioned the Hermitage to suit his political agenda, and ...

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 ...

S T. PETERSBURG – The name Piotrovsky has become part of the history of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, the second-largest museum in the world, founded 260 years ago by Catherine the ...