The Hermitage A tour of the halls and rooms
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- 01 januari 2011
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The State Hermitage is the largest museum of Russia, the collection of which numbers about three millions exhibits, including works of painting, sculpture, graphic and applied art, archaeological finds, coins and medals.
The Hermitage collection has been formed in the course of three centuries. Some of the masterpieces preserved in the museum have been acquired in the early eighteenth century, in the reign of Peter the Great. In the second half of the same century art collecting made an amazing progress in Russia. Thus, Catherine the Great, in addition to individual works and small groups of canvases, purchased several large collections that made up the core of the picture gallery of the present-day museum. The earliest in this series of large-scale acquisitions was the former collection of the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky including 225 paintings by Western European masters that was received as a compensation of his debt to the Russian court in 1764. This year is taken to be the date of the foundation of the Hermitage.
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the collection continued to grow thanks to numerous purchases, archaeological finds, and gifts as well as thanks to the works transferred from other Russian museums. The Hermitage collections continue to grow to this day.
Today the exhibitions of the Hermitage occupy several buildings. The earliest of them is the Winter Palace that was the main residence of the Russian Emperors for a century and a half. Located on the shore of the Neva, in the very heart of St Petersburg, the palace was erected in 1754-62 by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) by orders of Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great. In the first half of the eighteenth century several imperial winter residences had replaced one another and the new Winter Palace occupied the site of the former royal building, constructed in 1732—35 by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli and his father, Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli (1675—1744) for Empress Anna Ioannovna.
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