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My Hermitage - How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to Become the Greatest Museum in the World (Hardcover)
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My Hermitage - How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to Become the Greatest Museum in the World (Hardcover)
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The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has survived through 250
years of tsars, assassinations, fires, revolutions, and two world
wars to become a global cultural destination housing one of the
largest collections of art in the world. In an extraordinary
memoir, the museum's longtime director takes the reader on a
private tour of this global treasure. Holding one of the largest
collections of Western and Oriental art in the world, the Hermitage
is also a product of Russia and its dramatic history. Founded by
Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, the stunning Winter Palace was
built to house her growing collection of Old Masters and to serve
as a home for the imperial family. Tsars came and went over the
years, bloodily or peacefully, artworks were acquired and sold,
buildings were burned down in terrible fires, and still the
collections grew. After the violent upheavals of the Russian
Revolution in 1917, the palaces and collections were opened to the
public, ultimately enduring even the three-year siege of Leningrad
(now St. Petersburg) by the Nazis in World War II. Now, in an
unprecedented collection of illuminating essays, Piotrovsky
explores the cultural history of a collection as rich in adventure
as art. From fascinating intrigues, such as the Impressionist
masterpieces recovered in Germany after World War II and hidden
from the public for fifty years, to revelatory scholarship on the
collection's incredible art and artifacts, these authoritative and
engaging anecdotes make for an exceptional read. My Hermitage is a
profound and captivating story of art's timelessness and how it
brings people together.
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