Ever Wonder Whether A Museum Was A Hermitage?

Pradeep Aradhya
3 min readApr 27, 2022

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.

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Pradeep Aradhya

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