Hermitage Museum - Catherine the Great's Art Collection
An overview of Catherine the Great's Art Collection at the Hermitage Museum in the Winter Palace. Detail narrative of the highlights of the artwork by master artists Rembrandt, Raphael, Van Dyck and Bernardo Strozzi.
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The Peacock Clock at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
In the Pavilion Hall (Small Hermitage) of the Hermitage Museum (Winter Palace) in St. Petersburg, Russia is the Peacock Clock. This animated clock was created by British jeweler, James Cox. Grigory Potemkin, one of Catherine II's lovers, wanted to give her a gift that would appeal to her avid passion for collecting. This is a video of the video which plays beside the exhibit. The clock plays each Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. The magic of the peacock clock is one of the most popular pieces with the tourists.
Inside the Saint Petersburg academy of art, excellent documentary.
Extraordinary documentary about what happens inside this excellent school of art, seriousness that no longer exists in the art academies of today.
Visit: and The writer Torgrim Eggen interviews Odd Nerdrum at the cultural heart of Russia, visiting the Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum,.
Few places in the world still teach fine arts the old way, where form is everything, but the St-Petersburg academy of fine arts is one of them. Its the oldest art school in Russia and students.
Meow! Secret Hermitage Helpers (RT Documentary)
Russia's State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is home to countless pieces of art from around the world. RT goes behind the scenes of the former imperial palace on the Neva River to meet volunteers of all kinds...including cats.
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Catherine the Great's amazing peacock clock at the State Hermitage
What do you get for the woman who has everything? This webisode is associated with our full episode Inside the State Hermitage Museum. The State Hermitage is the place where Catherine the Great hosted her private dinner parties and met eligible bachelors.
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National Museum of the Republic Tatarstan
The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan (NM RT) is the largest museum in Tatarstan. It was founded as a Kazan Town Scientific and Industrial Museum in 1894 and opened on April 5, 1895. The basis of the museum is a private collection of 40 thousandth items of Andrei Fedorovich Likhachev (1832-90), a well-known regional archaeologist, numismatist, collector also the exhibits of scientific and industrial exhibition in 1890. Well-known scientists of Kazan University stood at the roots of the establishment of the museum and of the museum's collections formation, such as: A.A. Stuckenberg, N.P. Zagoskin, P.I. Krotov, N.F. Vysotsky, N.F. Catania and others. The museum occupies the former building of Gostinniy dvor (guest house), a monument of architecture and history of Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan.
There are over 800 thousand units in the museum's collection.
Nowadays the museum is in the process of reconstruction, the project of which provides creation of a permanent exhibition on the area of more than 6 000 sq.m. 2001, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the scientific concept of creation of exposition of NM RT in Gostiny Dvor building; consisting of three main parts: History of Tatarstan, from ancient times to present days, Nature and a Man, Culture: the interaction of cultures of peoples of Tatarstan. Now the museum has the following exhibitions: Ancient History of Tatarstan, Money, trade and trade routes in the Middle Ages, Tatar Golden Treasures, Kazan Province in the XVIII century, there are also temporary exhibitions.
Introduction of information technologies in all activity spheres of the museum began in 2001. During these years, a portal Museums of Tatarstan tatar.museum.ru have been created, it contains information on more than 100 museums of the republic.
The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan won the contest The Changing Museum in a Changing World in 2006. The Internet site of the contest:
(Part 2/3) Masterpieces of the The Hermitage of St. Petersburg: Russia in the Age of Peter the Great
This is an excellent documentary program that discusses some of the fine art in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Saint Petersburg City Guide: Winter Palace, Hermitage - Travel & Discover
The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The second-largest in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky.
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This movie was taken in Hermitage Museum in St. Petesburg, Russia in June of 2004. One must see this museum and spent few days for it. Its worth visiting place and I believe to be the best museum of the world in my humble opinion.
WWII reconstruction in St Petersburg
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1. Various of children with their parents at the shooting range, kids shooting from different weapons
2. Pan from man shooting to children looking at riffles
3. Close of shooting machinegun
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Shitikov with his son Leonid, St. Petersburg residents:
In Russia's past, future and present, it is very important. We have to pass these things on to our children: our understanding of history, and with the example of our fathers and grandfathers, who have always maintained patriotism in our Motherland. Patriotism is a necessary part of education.
5. Close of toy tanks
6. Portrait of Lenin on the military tent
7. Angry Birds toy with hat, reading (Russian) For Motherland and different Soviet flags
8. Children dressed in military uniform posing for picture with soldiers, tilt up from children to soldiers
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Yudin, St. Petersburg resident:
This was the beginning of liberation for USSR (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and Leningrad's (St. Petersburg's) blockade has been broken through. So today we show how this liberation was done in 1944.
10. Various of military reconstruction of Red Army taking over the strategic height
11. Various of re-enactment of battle with people watching in background
12. Wide of building with Nazi flag in front of it
13. Various of re-enactment of battle
14. Building on fire
15. Soldier putting Soviet flag on building
16. Russian flag
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Crowds gathered in St. Petersburg on Sunday to watch a reconstruction of World War II events to mark the 72nd anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad.
A shooting range with real guns was organised for children and their parents as part of the event.
The siege began in September 1941 in the city now known at St Petersburg, three months after Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union.
Residents of Leningrad, had to content themselves with daily food rations of no more than 250 grams of poor quality bread during the deadly 29-month-long Nazi siege.
About one million Russian civilians and a similar number of Russian soldiers died before the blockade was finally broken on January 27, 1944.
Historical festivals and military reconstructions of the WWII events play an important part in celebrations of anniversaries of victory of the USSR (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) in the World War II as well in the patriotic education of children and teenagers in Russia.
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(Part 1/3) Masterpieces of the The Hermitage of St. Petersburg: Highlights of the Masterpieces
This is an excellent documentary program that discusses some of the fine art in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
(Part 1/2) Masterpieces of the The Hermitage of St. Petersburg: The High Renaissance
This is an excellent documentary program that discusses some of the fine art in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Hermitage Museum is one of the finest, largest and most prestigious museums in the world. It requires 2-3 days just to skim the displays housed there. This is a video that I made while we were visiting the museum. You may want to also view my companion video of the wonderful concert we saw in the parking lot at the Hermitage Museum.
Historic Faberge
Historic Faberge creations continue to sell for record prices but the artworks of Faberge descendant Theo Faberge represent affordable options to collectors as discussed by St Petersburg Collection representative Kathy Kerr (music by K. MacLeod)
Музей изобразительных искусств имени Александра III / Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts- 1898-1914
Россия на дореволюционных фотографиях
Музей изобразительных искусств имени Александра III
(Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина)
г. Москва
1898-1914
Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
The Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts
Now the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Moscow
1898-1914
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The building of the Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts was designed by Roman Klein and Vladimir Shukhov. Construction lasted from 1898 until early 1912, with Ivan Rerberg heading structural engineering effort on the museum site for the first 12 years.... The Museum was formally opened by Emperor Nicholas II.
Having gone through a number of name-changes, particularly in the transition to the Soviet-era and the return of the Russian capital to Moscow, the museum was finally renamed to honour the memory of Pushkin in 1937, the 100th anniversary of his death.
The earliest monuments from the Museum collection are pieces of Byzantine art: mosaics and icons. The early stage of development of Western European painting is represented by a relatively small, but very impressive, collection of Italian Primitives. The hall of early Italian art was opened on October 10, 1924, but the first original paintings were presented to the Alexander III Fine Arts Museum in 1910 by Mikhail Schekin (1871–1920), the Russian consul in Trieste, and include unique Old Master works such as painting by Giambattista Pittoni. After 1924, many paintings from Moscow and St. Petersburg state-owned and private collections were provided to the Museum. These were artworks by Western European painters from the Rumyantsev Museum (Moscow), as well as the private collections of Sergei Tretyakov (1834-1892), the Yusupovs, the Shuvalovs, Henri Brocard (1836-1900), Dmitry Schukin (1855-1932), and other Russian collectors. Pieces provided by the State Hermitage were of particular importance. However, the gallery was completed only in 1948, when artworks by French painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were transferred from the State Museum of New Western Art.
Today the museum ids the largest museum of European art in Moscow.
The gardens that captivated Catherine the Great of Russia
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has been touring the gardens of Hampton Court .
The grounds of the Palace have a connection to another Catherine, Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia.
She was so inspired by what she saw that she acquired a series of paintings of the gardens, with the intention of inspiring her gardeners in Russia.
Now a selection of those artworks have been returned to Hampton Court where they were created.
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The great gardens of Hampton Court Palace were once playgrounds to princes and kings.
Now gardeners tend the formal beds where time seems to have stayed still.
Today's views are similar to how the gardens looked when the famed gardener Lancelot Capability Brown was in charge of the estate in the 18th Century.
To celebrate Capability Brown's 300th anniversary a rare collection of drawings and landscapes have been returned to Hampton Court, after being discovered in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
But Russian experts were unsure of the identity of the artist says Prof. Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum.
These drawings they had the title which had the name of the artist but it disappeared. Maybe some of the drawings disappeared because somebody wanted to build using the existing drawings and has done a design and so on. So then have been there for a long time just as part of the collection of Catherine the Great in an inventory but without the name of the author. Then it was rediscovered by Mikhail Dedinkin and then the real story of collaboration, co-operation begins. Because we needed very much to see the collections in Britain to recognise the places
Mikhail Dedinkin, Deputy head of Western European Art at The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg explains how he chanced upon this artistic detective story
When I started to look at the hermitage drawing collection I found two albums of drawings and watercolours. There were 150 mostly views of Hampton Court Palace and gardens. They were all by the same hand and dated 1777. My task was to discover who the artist was and to find out why and how they came to be here in St Petersburg.
The Hampton Court views show the English landscape style at its best - always including a water feature at its centre.
Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was a keen consumer of foreign culture and especially an admirer of English gardens.
She commissioned the English pottery masters Wedgwood to create a tea set for fifty people known as the Frog Service, painted to depict some of the most famous English landscapes.
Now the tea service and sixty paintings from the collection have been brought back to where they were first created - Hampton Court.
The mystery painter was John Spyers, assistant to Lancelot Capability Brown when he was head gardener at Hampton Court.
An ambitious and competent draughtsman Spyers sold the drawings to the Empress for a small fortune to assist her gardeners recreate a similar style.
Experts know little of Spyers, and a image of him is not known to exist.
Sebastian Edwards, Deputy Chief Curator and Head of Collections, Historic Royal Palaces says that Spyers' watercolours and sketches are like photographs of the Hampton Court gardens at the time of George III.
The gardens were originally created by King William and Queen Mary when they lived here in the 17th Century, with formal landscaping and clipped yews.
In the 18th century, royal garden director Capability Brown loosened the formal style.
Terry Gough, the current Head of gardens and Estates for Historic Royal Palaces, says he is relieved to learn that not much has changed over the last 250-odd years.
'The Empress and the Gardener' exhibition runs until 4 September 2016.
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Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Kunstkamera part 1.(Россия, Санкт-Петербург, Кунсткамера.1 часть)
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Кунстка́мера — кабинет редкостей, в настоящее время — Музей антропологии и этнографии имени Петра Великого Российской академии наук (МАЭ РАН) — первый музей России, учреждённый императором Петром Первым и находящийся в Санкт-Петербурге.
Обладает уникальной коллекцией предметов старины, раскрывающих историю и быт многих народов. Но многим этот музей известен по коллекции «уродцев» — анатомических редкостей и аномалий. Здание Кунсткамеры является с начала XVIII в. символом Российской академии наук
The Kunstkamera (or Kunstkammer; Russian: Кунсткамера) was the first museum in Russia. Established by Peter the Great and completed in 1727, the Kunstkammer Building hosts the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Russian: Музей антропологии и этнографии имени Петра Великого Российской академии наук), with a collection of almost 2,000,000 items. It is located on the Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg, facing the Winter Palace.
The Kunstkamera was established by Peter the Great on the Neva Riverfront. The turreted Petrine Baroque building of the Kunstkamera designed by Georg Johann Mattarnovy was completed by 1727. The foundation stone for the Kunstkammer was laid in 1719.
Peter's museum was a cabinet of curiosities dedicated to preserving natural and human curiosities and rarities, a very typical type of collection in the period. The tsar's personal collection, originally stored in the Summer Palace, features a large assortment of human and animal fetuses with anatomical deficiencies, which Peter had seen in 1697 visiting Frederick Ruysch and Levinus Vincent. The underlying idea of their kunstkammers was to acquire full knowledge of the world. The Dutch word kunst-kamer seems to be introduced by the surgeon Stephanus Blankaart in 1680.
The Kunstkamera of Peter the Great is often seen as a haphazard collection of incoherent rarities, but it seems they were collected systematically subject to a well defined plan. Peter's main interest was in naturalia, rather than the so-called artificialia. Peter encouraged research of deformities, all along trying to debunk the superstitious fear of monsters. He issued an ukase ordering malformed, still-born infants to be sent from all over the country to the imperial collection. He subsequently had them put on show in the Kunstkamera as examples of accidents of nature.
In 1716 Peter established the mineral cabinet of Kunstkamera, depositing there a collection of 1195 minerals which he had bought from Gotvald, a Danzig doctor. The collection was enriched with Russian minerals. It was a predecessor of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, now based in Moscow.
Many items were bought in Amsterdam from pharmacologist Albertus Seba (1716) and anatomist Frederik Ruysch (1717) and formed the basis for the Academy of Sciences. The Kunstkamera was specially built to house these two extensive collections. A third acquisition came from Jacob de Wilde, a collector of gems and scientific instruments. Head-physician to the czar, Robert Erskine, and his secretary Johann Daniel Schumacher were responsible for the acquisition