Having seen the painting ‘Joy of Life’ at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1906, Moscow merchant Sergei Shchukin was so ...

Russia’s State Hermitage Museum and UNESCO have inked a memorandum on cooperating to protect items of cultural value in armed conflict zones, in particular, in the Middle East PARIS, October 9.

Russia’s leadership is betting that chaos and infighting among the Islamist rebels who overthrew Syria’s regime will allow ...

The devastation prompted Russian restoration artists form the Hermitage Museum and other agencies to join the work to collect materials and data on the condition of the World Heritage Site.

US President-elect Donald Trump has twice named the State Hermitage the best museum in the world. This was told by the ...

Vladimir Putin sent greetings to Director General of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky on his 80th birthday.

In February 2025, Belgrade will host the grand exhibition "Peter the Great and the Balkans" as part of the "Days of the ...

Moscow tax auditor Sergei Magnitsky had been advising the biggest foreign investment firm in Russia, London-based Hermitage Capital Management, when he alleged the theft of $230m (£185m ...

Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated Mikhail Piotrovsky, the Director General of Russia’s State Hermitage Museum, ...

After battling the crowds at the Hermitage and taking in countless masterpieces at the Russian Museum, you're going to need a place to unwind. So why not go to the same spot Peter the Great used ...