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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
With exhibitions spanning nearly 720,000 square feet, Russia’s State Hermitage Museum is home to one of the largest known art ...
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Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace
Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house ... this museum is the main reason some travelers visit St. Petersburg in the first place. Recent travelers offered ...
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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 sees return of 40-year record number of visitors
SAINT-PETERSBURG, November 8. /TASS/. The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg now welcomes 4.5 million visitors per year, Hermitage Director General Mikhail Piotrovsky told TASS. The number ...
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State Hermitage Museum Official Hotel
Can Forbes Travel Guide solve the commissions conundrum?Forbes Travel Guide's endorsed travel agencies are dreaming the impossible dream: being paid hotel commissions ...
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The First Journey of Faith: Abraham’s Calling in Scripture and Art
Pieter Lastman, “Abraham on the Way to Canaan,” 1614, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (photo: Public Domain) Biblical scholars often divide the Book of Genesis into two parts ...