Hello dear friends,
Today -the International Museum Day and I would like to tell you about Hermitage Museum.
The Hermitage is one of the oldest and largest museum in the world.On this photo you can see the most beautiful building on the Palace square.This majestic building occupies 9 hectares and has about 1,5 thoudand rooms.
Pale green and white colors of the building give it special grace.Sculpture decorate the facade at the top.
The Impress loved to spend hours in solitude.So she called this museum Hermitage,from French-the hermit’s hut.
Along the Neva river this building stretches for 230 m,has 117
stairs,more than 2000 windows.
The museum collection is displayed in five historical buildings.
The Winter Palace
The Small Hermitage
The Old Hermitage
The New Hermitage
The Hermitage Theatre
The Hermitage has one of the greatest collection of the works of art and. the biggest museum in Ruddia.More them 3 million exhibit in this museum.The date of foundingthe Hermitage is considered the year 1764,when Catherine the Great 225 pictures brought to St.Petersburg.In 1863 ,the Hermitage become a public museum.
In Hermitage has more than 400 splendid rooms.
There are about 2500 paintings by famous artist .
You can see in Hermitage paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci,Raphael,Titisn,Rembrant,Rubens,Picasso,Monet,Van Gogh.
You can see cameos and germs,decorated clock ,object of gold and silver,porcelain,statues,antique vases,Tsars thrones.
The Hermitage collections increased thanks to the material and reseach expiditions.A special collection of the museum is callef “Gold Treasury”, which includes many items made of jewelary,from different countries,different epoch
Every day a lot of tourists from different countries visit the Hermitage
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