the museum was closed during World War II by Stalin, who liked his artists regimented and realist. Only in the post-Stalin years have the paintings begun to reappear in Leningrad’s Hermitage and ...

The museum’s origins date back to Russian Empress Catherine the Great, a lover of the arts who wrote plays and children’s literature. In 1764, nearly a century before the State Hermitage’s ...

Russia’s State Hermitage Museum and UNESCO have inked a memorandum on cooperating to protect items of cultural value in armed conflict zones, in particular, in the Middle East PARIS, October 9.