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Illustrations to the rare émigré publication “There! Pictures of the Soviet Paradise” of the early 1920s. The new life in Bolshevik Petrograd is depicted by the authors with scrawny cows in city courtyards, starving people in a canteen, unbuttoned sailors and their drunken girlfriends from the Cheka, and workers sleeping
The East · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
The centres in Korea and Oman are the first overseas satellites of the Hermitage to be announced since 2022.
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While Moscow plunges into the raging art scene, Saint Petersburg calmly opens the autumn social season. And in the history of Petersburg, as you know, the society dinner was always more than a mere taking of nourishment: it was a form of conversation, a platform for ideas and a place
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A week ago I wrote about the then forthcoming exhibition of collector Zoya Galeeva's collection at the Anna Nova gallery in Saint Petersburg. Today I offer a friendly reminder that the exhibition is open and ready to receive guests and residents of the cultural capital. Zoya Galeeva has
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The Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House holds collections of verse with pasted-over pages. It is reported that Akhmatova herself pasted these pages shut. What is beneath? Akhmatova's poems about Stalin. It is believed that Anna Andreyevna was compelled to write them in order to help her
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The concept of the exhibition rests on the psychoanalytic theory of Carl Gustav Jung and his notion of the "shadow", the rejected part of the human psyche. Collecting, in this context, is treated as a way of encountering the unconscious, in which the choice of works becomes an
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Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once. The picture has been ascribed to Domenico Mancini and to Domenico
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📌 Madonna and Child in a Landscape, circa 1503. Acquired in 1817 from the Creighton collection in Saint Petersburg. On display in Room 217 of the Large Hermitage. One of the painter's early works 📌 Judith, 1504. Acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris.
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Labouring for the glory of himself and his fatherland, and forever moving in society to divert his many friends with music, he fell in love with a certain lady, and the two of them took very great delight in their love. But it so happened that in 1511 she caught
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
One of the copies of this work is in the Hermitage
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Figures in Russian and Bashkir national costume. From the Berlin dessert service, after models by Friedrich Elias Meyer. Prussia, Berlin, Royal Porcelain Manufactory, 1770-1772. Porcelain, overglaze painting, gilding Hermitage Collection
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Moscow: 250,000 - 305,000 - 601,000 - 1,175,000 Saint Petersburg: 220,000 - 442,000 - 668,000 - 1,418,000