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Art washes from the soul
the dust of everyday life.
- Pablo Picasso
The Hermitage is one of the most famous art museums in the world.
It's comprised of a collection of grand buildings including the Winter Palace,
the Small Hermitage, the Large Hermitage, and the New Hermitage of 1839.

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The Winter Palace viewed from Palace Square


The tsars spared no expense...
Pavilion Hall - The Small Hermitage

Cynthia's Hermitage Hopping Tips:
- Dress Warmly... It's Drafty
- Don't Try to See it All!


Your senses will be dazzled
The New Hermitage, Raphael's Loggia
One of 353 magnificent rooms in the Hermitage


All good things are the fruits of originality. - John Stuart Mill

Ea Haere Ia Oe (1893)
Woman Holding a Fruit by Paul Gauguin
One of the Hermitage's almost 3 million art treasures


Architecture by Carlo Rossi
Lion guarding The Mikhailovsky Castle of The Russian Museum
...my favorite St. Petersburg art mecca
(especially the Russian avant-garde collections)


The father of Russian literature - killed in a duel at 37
Finally, Russia's most beloved poet: Alexander Pushkin

"Not all of me is dust. Within my song,
safe from the worm, my spirit will survive."

Read Pushkin's Poems

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