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 ...

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 ...

Any use of images of items from the museum’s collections and of its interior in the collection of tokens, supplied with the logo Hermitage Edition, had not been agreed and could not have been ...