Gosudarstvennyĭ Ermitaz︠h︡
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The high-quality colorful publication is devoted to the Hermitage - one of the world's largest Arts Museums. The Hermitage was founded in the XVIIth century on the basis of Empress Catherine's private collection. Its vast precious expositions, formed more than two centuries ago, represent world culture and art history from ancient times up to the present. They are displayed in more than 300 halls of the main five buildings of the palace - Winter Palace, Small, Old and New Hermitages and the Hermitage Theatre. Every day the Museum is visited by a great number of people willing to feel the unique atmosphere of glorious epochs, to admire great masterpieces created during thousands of years of human civilization existence.