Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2007 Издание:Scala Publishers Страниц: 160 ISBN: 9781912080173, 9781857595215 "This book is dedicated to a small part of our museum - its renowned picture gallery. The painting collections of the Hermitage are huge and varied and they are also multidimensional. These pictures tell of individuals and nations among whom and for whom they were created. But at the same time they narrate a story about Russia, which took this art and made it its own, a part of its own cultural heritage. It is impossible to imagine Russian culture without the Hermitage. Through the Hermitage she made her European choice. Through the Hermitage she has assimilated and reworked the world's cultural heritage, both eastern and western. The pictures of the Hermitage also preserve the memories of the great collectors which have become part of the museum's atmosphere. Glancing at the renowned Hermitage frames, we recall Catherine the Great, Count von Brahl and Robert Walpole; Semenov-Tien-Shansky and Shchukin and Morozov, and many, many others. They too make up a part of the cultural...
