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 ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

Piotrovsky just celebrated his 80th birthday in an official event at the resplendent Great Throne Hall of the Imperial Winter Palace, connected to the Hermitage. President Vladimir Putin, ...