Ever Wonder Whether A Museum Was A Hermitage?

There is one museum made up of several royal hermitage buildings called “The State Hermitage Museum” in St. Petersburg Russia.

The State Hermitage Museum was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky.

Why is it so famous? Aside from it being one of the world’s largest and most prestigious museums, it is the home of the world’s largest collection of Russian works with more than 400,000 pieces spanning the 10th-21st centuries.

The Hermitage holdings include nearly three million items dating from the Stone Age to the present. Among them is one of the world’s richest collections of western European paintings since the Middle Ages, including many masterpieces by Renaissance Italian and Baroque Dutch, Flemish, and French painters.

But who is Catherine the Great?

Catherine II, called Catherine the Great, reigned over Russia for 34 years — longer than any other female in Russian history. As empress, Catherine westernized Russia. She led her country into full participation in the political and cultural…