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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
The museum’s origins date back to Russian Empress Catherine the Great, a lover of the arts who wrote plays and children’s literature. In 1764, nearly a century before the State Hermitage’s ...
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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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Hermitage cat finally caught after roaming museum halls for two months
TASS/. Workers of St. Petersburg’s famous Hermitage Museum, with the assistance of the Koshkispas animal rescue service, have finally managed to catch a museum cat, which was hiding in ...
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Hermitage Museum says German musician Till Lindemann violates terms of contract
TASS/. The State Hermitage Museum has said that German vocalist Till Lindemann has in violation of a binding contact misused its name and images of exhibits from its collection by issuing a series ...