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The Hermitage Museum, which now occupies the whole Winter Palace, began as Catherine's personal collection. The empress was a great lover of art and books, and ordered the construction of the Hermitage in 1770 to house her expanding collection of paintings, sculpture, and books. [70]
The Hermitage, Russia’s most famous art museum, has been a cultural landmark of St. Petersburg since the time of Empress Catherine the Great. Originally a private museum, the Hermitage’s collection was founded through Catherine’s art purchases. In the years following her reign, Catherine’s successors expanded both the structures and ...
27 de ago. de 2004 · KATIA DIANINA. Assistant Professor of Russian at Amherst College. Her publications include “Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade” (Slavic Review, 2003), “The Feuilleton: An Everyday Guide to Public Culture in the Age of the Great Reforms” (SEEJ, 2003), and “The Museum and the Nation: The Imperial Hermitage in Russian Society,” in The Collections of the ...
250 years after Catherine founded the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Hermitage Amsterdam presents “Catherine, The Greatest, Self-Polished Diamond of the Hermitage”. Besides detailing her life, this books also functions as a catalogue to the museum’s exhibition of the same name, which shows her many dazzling personal treasures.
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All that remains of this pretty chapel of the Hermitage of Saint Catherine, with its rectangular nave and pointed barrel vault, is the statue of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Christ on the Cross and the font. Only the chapel is now open to the public twice a year.
