Russian Culture and Art

Permanent event at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

27 May 2017

Russian Culture and Art, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

The exhibition focuses on the reign (1762 - 1796) of Catherine II and her immediate successors.

Paintings on display are mostly portraits including works by Vladimir Borovikovsky, Dmitry Levitsky, Fyodor Rokotov and by such foreign artists as Alexander Roslin, Johann Baptist von Lampi, Jean-Louis Voille, Angelica Kauffmann and others.

Also presented in the exhibition are objects of decorative and applied art, such as costumes, furniture, porcelain, glassware, textiles and metal artworks. Room 171 which used to be Alexander II’ study combined with bedroom, houses a memorial plaque and a marble bust of the Emperor, who died of wounds here on the 1st March 1881.

The State Hermitage Museum

The Hermitage is considered to have been founded in 1764, when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of works from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, St. Catherine’s Day.

Museum profile

Location

St Petersburg, Russia

Founded in

2013

Russian Culture and Art, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
Russian Culture and Art, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
Russian Culture and Art, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum

Russian Culture and Art, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
Russian Culture and Art, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
Russian Culture and Art, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum