Excursion to the Hermitage

The State Hermitage Museum — In the center of St. Petersburg on the Neva River, opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress, the museum is the largest in Russia. Take a tour of the Hermitage — should anyone visiting St. Petersburg.

The State Hermitage Museum — is the calling card of St. Petersburg, as well as one of the largest and most significant art and historical museums in Russia and abroad.
Modern Hermitage is a complex museum complex. The main exposition of the museum occupies five buildings situated along the embankment of the Neva River, the main of which is considered to be the Winter Palace and the Eastern Wing of the General Staff on Palace Square. The museum’s collection consists of about three million works of art and monuments of world culture, from the Stone Age to the present century.

Visit the Hermitage , which is considered one of the largest art museums in the world. A place of honor is occupied ceremonial palace interiors. The museum collected millions of monuments of world culture and art. It is based on drawing and painting, sculpture, applied art, as well as archaeological finds.

Reservation guided tours for groups by calling (812) 575-56-39, ext. # 203
The State Hermitage Museum is part of the twenty most visited museums in the world. Although until the middle of the XIX century to visit the Hermitage could only be elected, which is fully consistent with its name (French Ermitage -. Lonely place, hermit shelter). His collection contains about three million exhibits — paintings, sculptures, drawings, works of applied art, coins, medals and signs, types of weapons, archaeological sites and other values created by many nations of the world from ancient times to the present day. The scale and importance of collections in a row with the Hermitage can be supplied only the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. Big counterpoint different materials that are concentrated in the Hermitage.
Hermitage — it’s an amazing world full of wonders. The museum’s collection has always attracted and continues to attract thousands of people of different ages and professions, from different countries and peoples of different generations and different worldviews. And everyone can find there what is needed is his soul. Truly a rare unity: the collection of such a high level, the beauty of the architectural frame, the significance of historical associations — all this attracts people, making a bright and unique feature of today’s Hermitage.

Hermitage systematically expanding their holdings, will increase the new branches, and most important of them are very close to the Winter Palace, the building of the General Staff, which draws Palace Square grand 600-meter façade in the Empire style. The museum has got only the east wing of the building, but it’s a lot. The huge space is interesting, first of all, the architecture: a suite of rooms, stretching along the perimeter, added five indoor courts with top light and spectacular staircases. Secondly, it is in the General Staff now be assigned a first-class Hermitage collection of French art of the late XIX-early XX century: Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, and others of their contemporaries given the entire fourth floor. And among the exhibits there is always something worthwhile.