Excursions

Hermitage

The Hermitage is one of the world's greatest art museums and Russia 's largest art repository, totalling about three million exhibits. At present the museum occupies five buildings. There is also an exhibition at the Menshikov Palace , a branch of the Hermitage. In the Hermitage guests can explore the art of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Classical Greece and its colonies in the northern Black Sea coast area. The Western European Department covers the art of Italy , Spain , the Netherlands , Holland and Flanders , France , Germany and England . Its displays include masterpieces by great painters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giorgione, Titian, El Greco, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Gainsborough and many others including great collection of impressionists. Also to be found here are exquisite sculptures by Michelangelo, Antonio Canova and Auguste Rodin, and displays of Western European arms, Italian majolicas, tapestries, Limoges enamels and Sevres porcelains.

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