Название: The Hermitage. Room-to-room Guide
Автор: Персианова О.М.
Издательство: Aвpopa, 4-е изд.
Год: 1978
Страниц: 212
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 19.0 MB

Государственный Эрмитаж. Краткий путеводитель на английском языке.

The Hermitage ranks with the very finest of the world's art museums. It is the largest in the Soviet Union and contains more than two and a half million works of art representing different ages, countries and peoples.

The history of the Hermitage is closely connected with that of the buildings which house the present-day museum. The Winter Palace and the three buildings of the Hermitage, conventionally called the Small Hermitage, the Old Hermitage and the New Hermitage, and united by a series of covered passage-ways, form one of the most superb architectural ensembles in Leningrad.

The Winter Palace was built between 1754 and 1762 by Bartolommeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) in magnificent Baroque style. The inside of the Palace has been reconstructed several times.