- The Hermitage. St. Petersburg is by right called the cultural capital of Russia. ... It used to be the official residence of the Russian monarchs.
- Founded in 1764 by Russian Empress Catherine the Great, the State Hermitage Museum is the richest, finest, and biggest museums in the world.
- The Hermitage in the Prado, an exhibition of 120 works that together reveal the enormous variety and splendour of the collections housed in the Russian museum.
- The museum consists of six buildings and there are three main buildings. Those are the New Hermitage, the Small Hermitage and the Old Hermitage.
- Before the Hermitage became one of the world's best museums, it was the personal collection of Empress Catherine the Great.
- The entrance ticket for foreign tourists costs more than the fee paid by citizens of Russia and Belarus. ... A hermitage is the dwelling of a hermit or recluse.
- Today the Kremlin is the official residence of the President of Russia. ... The Hermitage is one of the world's largest museums. It is located in Saint Petersburg.
- State Hermitage is one of the largest museums in the world. Its exhibitions include over 3 million exhibits representing Antiquity, Western Europe, Middle ...
- Hermitage One of the world-wide known museums is the Hermitage. The word «Hermitage» means «a place of solitude».