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Hermitage: Winter Palace – home to the Hermitage Museum
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  • The Hermitage Museum one of the most prominent art museums in the world and the main tourist attraction in St Petersburg. Its main works are housed in one of the most spectacular buildings in the city - the Winter Place that sits in all its splendour on the Palace Square. Further exhibitions are housed in surrounding buildings, along the river - the Small Hermitage, the Old Hermitage and the New Hermitage. The number of works on display is so great that I read if you spent 1 minute looking at each exhibit, it would take 11 years!! Guess forward planning is the key. Not being huge fans of museums or art, we did not go into the Hermitage...much to the disgust of many of our art loving friends!! But to me the outside of the building is attraction enough. This huge, beautifully maintained green, cream and gold structure made the perfect subject for numerous photos. It was built to be admired. Opening Time: Daily except Mondays from 10.30am to 6pm

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  • Address: 34 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya (Palace Embankment)
  • Phone: (812) 311 3465
  • Directions: Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospekt or Gostiny Dvor
  • Website: www.hermitagemuseum.org
  • Other Contact: interface@hermitage.ru

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    Hermitage: The Winter Palace/Hermitage
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  • The Winter Palace/Hermitage actually consists of 5 different buildings connected by walkways. It was built by Peter the Great for his daughter Elizabeth, but she did not live long enough to see the palace finished. Her son, Peter III, was the first Russian Czar to live in the Palace. Today, the Hermitage houses the vast art collection of Catherine the Great. It is one of the finest collections of art in Europe, with works from every concievable master from every time period represented. The museum also houses many items once belonging to the royal family including Alexander the Great's coffin and other, more personal items. All in all, the museum houses over 2.7 million works of art. The Winter Palace is the largest building that I have ever seen. It's green and white, gold-trimmed walls encompass perhaps 10 city blocks, maybe even more. It is incredible. Sadly, the building is not in very good condition. Much of the palace is in need of repair or renovation. You will have to pay an additional fee ($5 US, cash only) in addition to the entrace fee if you would like to take pictures inside the Palace. I also recommend that you be wary of the many people that congregate outside the palace doors trying to sell things or begging for money. There is a good chance that you will get your pockets picked if you are not careful!

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  • Directions: Adjacent to Palace Square
  • Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/05/hm5_2_1.html

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    Hermitage: Hermitage, The Imperior Castle
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  • I think it's the most famous place in the city. It's the residence of the Russian Imperiors (Romanov family) in the St.Petersburg. There is the great collection of pictures, sculptures and other cultural things in the world. It's impossible to see all things in the castle in one day. So, if you decided to know the castle fully you must be ready to spend whole day there. The building was finished in Ekaterina II times (60-s of XVIII century) by architect Rastrelli. The price to go inside is RUR 100 (EUR 3).

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    Hermitage: The Hermitage ~ Winter Palace
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  • The Hermitage Museum is one of the most prestigious art museums in the world. It occupies the Winter Palace & 4 more buildings. So grand and stately is the edifice of the Winter Palace that it can only be seen in its entirety from the opposite banks of the Neva River or the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island. The fourth palace of this name, the eminent architect Rastrelli designed the main building in the Baroque style, the last of its kind. The Winter Palace was built for Elizabeth Petrovna, a daughter of Peter the Great; however she died before its completion. It subsequently became the seat of the Imperial Dynasty and a focal point of St. Petersburg. In 1922, the Winter Palace was handed over to The Hermitage Museum. The original green and white, gold trimmed Winter Palace houses priceless works of art thought to number 2.7 million individual items!! So large and impressive is the collection of the Hermitage, it is said that if a visitor stood before each work of art for one minute, it would take the visitor 7 years or more to see the collection in its entirety!!! Even though we spent only a few hours visiting here, we were able to see some wonderful works of art. The Hermitage takes its name from 'hermitage' or the several rooms that Catherine the Great set aside in the palace as a place of retreat. That it became became known as a museum in its own right took place about the year 1764. There is a charge of US $4 (2005 price) for using a camera, and you must display the appropriate sticker. To use a video cam is at least twice that rate. No flash photography of paintings allowed. I believe the rule also held for non-flash cameras & video cams. Here as in the Yusupov Palace, women attendants in each room watch for rule-breakers and will confront you. Do not wear anything heavier than a long sleeved shirt inside during the summer as it can become rather stiffeling in The Hermitage. Bathrooms are few & far between but there are several gift shops!

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  • Address: 34, Dvortsovaya Embankment, St. Petersburg
  • Phone: Ph: 571-8446
  • Directions: On the banks of the Neva River, across from the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island and next to the Hermitage. Adjoins Palace Square where you will find Alexander's Column.

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    Hermitage: The Main Staircase of the New Hermitage
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  • On the first floor, you can go around the main staircase from the Italian section, towards the Spanish section. Or you can go down towards the ground floor, where you can admire The Art and culture of the Classical Antiquity. But the Main Staircase of the New Hermitage (hall nr 110) is also nice to see, the staircase is very wide and it is surrounded by dark-red columns of Finnish granite. Around the staircase you can see different sculptures and vases. In the corner there was a small book shop, which was also selling beautiful postcards.

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  • Address: Hermitage Museum
  • Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

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    Hermitage: Rubens Collection
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    Some of Rubens Master pieces
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    The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg has an important collection of paintings of the Flemish Master painter Pieter Paul Rubens. Some of the most important Rubens paintings in the hermitage are Perseus and Andromeda, The Descent from the Cross and Bacchus. At the moment that I visited the Hermitage, there was also a big, important Rubens exposition in Lille, France. As this year (2004) Lille was Cultural Capital of Europe (together with Genoa). So some of Rubens paintings which can be seen in the Hermitage were in Lille. No problem at all, as I already had visited the exposition in Lille.

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  • Address: Hermitage Museum
  • Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

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    Hermitage: Queing to get in
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  • The Hermitage museum is the most visited highlight in St Petersburg. So it is quite normal that there are long lines of visitors who are waiting to buy an entry ticket. Attention : there are separate entries for the groups and for the individual visitor. The individual tourist must enter via the entrance at the Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad. The entrance for the groups is at the other side of this big building, at Dvortsovaya Nab, along the Neva River. This picture is made around 9.30 am, and there is already a line, and the Hermitage museum just opens at 10.30 am.

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  • Address: Palace Square

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    Hermitage: The Field Marshals' Hall
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  • Via the magnificent Jordan Staircase you arrive in the Field Marshals' Hall (hall nr 193). This Field Marshals' Hall is one of the large suites of state rooms in the Winter Palace. In this Field Marshals' Hall you can see some beautiful porcelain vases (19th century). There is also the "Big" French carriage, which was used by Peter I when he stayed in Paris. This carriage is also used for two coronation ceremonies - those of Catherine I (1724) and Catherine the Great (1762).

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  • Address: Hermitage Museum
  • Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

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    Hermitage: Mosaic Floor
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  • In the Pavilion hall (hall nr 204), you can see a magnificent Mosaic floor. This Mosaic is a copy of a Mosaic floor which was discovered in 1780 during the excavations of the Thermae in the ancient Roman town Otriculum (modern Otricoli), near Rome. The original Mosaic is twice the size of the copy.

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  • Address: Hermitage Museum
  • Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

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    Hermitage: The Small Throne Room
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  • The next hall I visited was The Small Throne Room or The Memorial Hall of Peter the Great (hall Nr 194). This room is dedicated to Peter the Great. Behind the Throne in the niche you can see the painting of Peter the Great with Minerva which was made by Jacopo Amiconi in 1730.

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  • Address: Hermitage Museum
  • Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

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