• Free of decoration, the two large and open halls of the Small Hermitage are transformed into a Kunsthalle, a new space for temporary exhibitions...
  • The Small Hermitage is an architectural monument located in the central part of St. Petersburg and is part of the State Hermitage Museum complex.
  • The Small Hermitage (1764-65), the Old (Large) Hermitage (1771-87), and the Hermitage Theatre (1783-87) were added by Catherine the Great.
  • The “small hermit’s shelter” (“Hermitage” in French) was designed by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe – and in fact it wasn’t small at all.
  • The classical Small Hermitage, which evolved from a series of buildings constructed between Palace Sq and the Neva between 1764 and 1769, was used by…
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    • 5174-2. St. Petersburg. Small Hermitage.jpg - GAlexandrova
    • Statue at Exterior of Small Hermitage.jpg - Yair-haklai
  • ...special building was built, which together with the palace formed a single architectural composition of the Palace Square - this is the Small Hermitage.
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  • The Small Hermitage, a part of the Hermitage Museum’s set of buildings, was erected on Catherine II’s order, as she found the Winter Palace not personal enough.
  • After the opening in spring 2012, the Hanging Garden of the Small Hermitage appeared before the guests in the form in which Vasily Stasov created it in 1841.