Sunday 12th January 2020 The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is predominantly an art gallery and includes the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the New Hermitage, the Hermitage itself and the Hermitage Theatre, as well as the General Staff Wing. Something less like a small, remote dwelling for someone living in religious solitude is hard to imagine. Regular readers will know that our guide had advised us to buy tickets for the Hermitage complex from the General Staff Wing to allow us to jump the queue. However, when we tried to do this, we were told that you could not buy tickets for the whole complex from the General Staff Wing at this time of year. We are sure this would be worth it in the busy summer months however. Fortunately there were only a couple of people in front of us in the queue and we were able to go straight in, once we had deposited our coats in the cloakroom. The entrance is magnificent and sets the tone for what follows. The first exhibition rooms we entered contained a temporary display about Prince Grigory Potemkin. There are paintings, books and documents from Potemkin’s collection, but the most […]
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