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| Don Taylor | profile | all galleries >> Travel Galleries >> St Petersburg Russia >> The state Hermitage Museum | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
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The Hermitage Museum encompasses many buildings on the Palace Embankment and its neighbourhoods. Apart from the Small Hermitage, the museum now also includes the 'Old Hermitage' (also called 'Large Hermitage'), the 'New Hermitage', the 'Hermitage Theatre', and the 'Winter Palace'. Each of the buildings was designed by celebrated architects from the 18th and 19th centuries. The most famous of the buildings is the Winter Palace, designed by Bartolommeo Rastrelli, and which was the residence the Russian emperors until 1917. The magnificent green, white and gold Winter Palace is superbly situated on the banks of the Neva River, a 656 ft-long (200m) Russian Baroque building that is the biggest and most lavishly decorated palace in the city.
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