"The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The second-largest art museum 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. It has been open to the public since 1852 " Wikipedia
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