Hermitage Museum

Strong points in the Hermitage Museum collection of Western art and include the work of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Busan, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, and Matisse. There are many more groups, however, including Russian imperial regalia, and a variety of Faberge jewelry Fabergé, and the largest group of ancient gold from eastern Europe and western Asia.
History
Hermitage Museum opened in February, 1852 and was inaugurated by Russian Czar Nicholas I next winter palace on the Neva River in Sanboutrs Burg, which was the capital of Tsarist Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917 and launched by the Empress Catherine II Name'' Armitage'' a French word that means alone or place isolated which had been for the emperor most of her time alone or with housemaids confidante of them to escape the rules protocol rule that was hate empress, and then came the Bolshevik Revolution of communism in 1917 to drop the tsar and ordered to transfer the Winter Palace and the four buildings huge thereto to a great museum he became Museum Hermitage  and return prosperity Hermitage Museum to the second half of the eighteenth century, the era of prosperity of the Russian Empire, time Czarina famous Catherine II . in 1764 by buying more than 225 paintings panel, due mostly to school Filamandria and Dutch . N Russian czars being sent ambassadors in foreign capitals to get the best collections offered for sale. The British government in a position to buy a special set of international stature in the late eighteenth century, but it did not work. This group is a group Sir Robert Walpole, because his descendants considered the launch of the Group for sale in 1777. Called MP radical John Wilkes, speaking to the House of Commons, to be built exhibition noble and broad in the garden of the British Museum for the reception of this treasure invaluable. "Did not bother government appeal made by the Wilkes and 20 years after the group Sir Robert Walpole in its entirety had purchased by Catherine the Great; and placed in the Hermitage Museum. several works by Leonardo da Vinci, Van Eck, and Raphael was purchased in Italy. the Hermitage collection of works by Rembrandt was considered the largest collection in the world.expansion in the twentieth century
Imperial announced the Hermitage property of the state after the Soviet revolution in 1917. Annexation Hermitage museum collections, which were scattered on the outskirts of Petersburg, and special collections, which were seized and nationalized, doubled inventory of the museum. During the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, under the rule of Stalin ordered the government to sell more than two thousand works of art, including some of the most valuable collections of the Hermitage and included these artifacts are priceless, such as Raphael 's Alba Madonna, Titian' Venus.Hermitage in the twenty-first century
In recent years, the expansion of the Hermitage to the buildings adjacent to the General Staff, and fired several ambitious projects abroad, international affiliates to Hermitage Museum is located in Amsterdam, London, Las Vegas and Ferrara (Italy), closed Hermitage Museum in London permanently in November 2007 .
Museum features
Characterized Hermitage Museum on more museums of the world are all the enormity of buildings five and design halls and the number of exhibits many important and which, dating back to celebrity art world in Russia and abroad. Pallaidhafah that Hermitage Museum is one of the most important tourist attractions in Russia, was interested in the Soviet Union in museums and public libraries much attention so Russia became the first countries in the world where, where there where 2,300 museum contains about 80 million pieces displayed, and about 50 thousand library containing more than one billion printed, and works in the Hermitage Museum alone one thousand five hundred people, including about 160 scientists and experts in the arts and ancient monuments working at the Institute of special museum called the Institute of Hermitage, and in charge maintenance and restoration of exhibits and the search for exhibits new and study the history of all the exhibits to provide sufficient information for visitors to the museum, and visit the Hermitage each year about 5.3 million visitors, and contains buildings on 350 hall displays, where about 15 thousand paintings and 12 A statue, and 600 thousand artifacts and more than one million pieces of coins weapons medals old, and tens of thousands of the rarest icons old Christian, and Museum of branches outside Russia in London and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and opened the Hermitage in 2004 a branch in Las Vegas, USA, has objected This step class museums including the Metropolitan Museum in New York because the U.S. city of Las Vegas is not worthy of museums for the spread of gambling halls and nightclubs, but Metropolitan director Ph

Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art (not display once) and one of the oldest museums and art galleries and human history and culture in the world. International branches of the Hermitage Museum is located in Amsterdam, London, Las Vegas and Ferrara (Italy). Holds Hermitage Museum Guinness record for the largest collection of paintings in the world .