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The Breathtaking Hermitage Museum, Filled With Treasures Like the Kolyvan Vase and the Peacock Clock, First Opened to the Public on This Day in 1852
Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...
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Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796)
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.
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Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace
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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Curious Minds: Catherine the Great and the Hermitage Museum
An imperial residence, a museum, a monument to splendour and opulence—Russia’s Hermitage is more than ... the course will examine how Catherine the Great, a self-proclaimed art and ...
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What Happened to Russian Empress Catherine the Great's Jewelry - And Who Has It Now?
For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III - understood that ...