Famous Landmarks of St. Petersburg | The State Hermitage Museum
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Le musée de l’Ermitage , St Petersbourg ,Russie , situé au cœur de Saint-Pétersbourg, au bord de la Neva, est le plus grand musée du monde en termes d'objets exposés (plus de 60 000 pièces y sont exposées dans près de 1 000 salles tandis que près de 3 millions d’objets sont conservés dans les réserves).
Le musée présente, à côté de nombreuses pièces de l’Antiquité, une collection d’œuvres d’art européen de la période classique qui compte parmi les plus belles au monde. Parmi les œuvres exposées, figurent des peintures de maîtres hollandais et français comme Rembrandt, Rubens, Henri Matisse et Paul Gauguin. On y trouve également deux peintures à l'huile de Léonard de Vinci ainsi que trente et une peintures de Pablo Picasso. Le musée emploie 2 500 personnes et utilise l'aide de nombreux stagiaires gérés par le Service des volontaires du musée de l'Ermitage. Les bâtiments abritant le musée de l’Ermitage constituent un des principaux ensembles du centre de Saint-Pétersbourg qui est classé au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO.
THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items,[3] including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since 1990, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky.
THE WINTER PALACE and STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, St PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
(See also St ISAAC'S CATHEDRAL The symbolic site of the October 1917 Revolution, and arguably the most iconic building in the city, the Winter Palace started life in 1764 as the primary residence of the Tsars and is today the main part of one of the world's greatest art museums, with over 3 million exhibits. (4 June 2010)
Auer. The Heritage. International Violin Festival 2019. St Petersburg, Russia 4K
The Final Day of Auer. The Heritage International Violin Festival 2019 in Belosselsky Belozersky Palace of St Petersburg, Russia. 4K
Leopold von Auer (1845-1930) was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor and composer, best known as an outstanding violin teacher. The Founder of so called Russia Violin School. For 50 years (1968-1918) Auer was a professor of Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
Auer is remembered as one of the most important pedagogues of the violin. Many notable virtuoso violinists were among his students, including Mischa Elman, Konstanty Gorski, Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, Toscha Seidel, Efrem Zimbalist, Georges Boulanger, Benno Rabinof, Kathleen Parlow, Julia Klumpke, Thelma Given, Sylvia Lent and Oscar Shumsky. Among these were some of the greatest violinists of the twentieth century.
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Russian Heritage Musuem in St Petersburg
No trip to St. Petersburg is complete without a stop at the famous hermitage museum.
Its fabulous collection includes more than three million works of art and relics, from around the world.
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UNESCO World Heritage: Peterhof Gardens/Fountains, St Petersburg, Russia
After arriving on hydrofoil, we witnessed the spectacular turning on of the Grand Cascade and the Samson Fountain. The fountains are turned on each morning accompanied by the music of Hymn to the Great City. The Peterhof gardens have a unique fountain system that requires no pumps. Water for the fountains is supplied by a gravity-fed water system, 22km long, skilfully designed to exploit the natural slope of the terrain. This system operates no pumps and supplies enough water to the fountains and cascades of Peterhof to keep them working for up to ten hours a day.
The palace and its grounds have been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and are among the most popular tourist attractions in St. Petersburg. There is a good reason it is called the Capital of Russian Fountains. The gardens include many fountains such as Sun Fountain, Chess Mountain (Dragon Hill), Trick Fountains etc.
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Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east.
Saint Petersburg is often considered Russia's cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. Many foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.
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St Petersburg, Russia Travel Guide - Must See Places
St Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and the entire city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site! I visited Russia for the very first time this last year, and was blown away by the Russian architecture, cultural scenes, and impressive museums.
Here are some of my highlights from my recent trip to St Petersburg that you shouldn't miss out on. Thanks to the Corinthia Hotel St Petersburg for making my trip a memorable one.
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Peterhof Great Palace Lower Gardens, Saint Petersburg Russia
An imperial complex on the Gulf of Finland, Peterhof began with the 1714 'Monplaisir' summer palace. The Great Palace and Grand Cascade were expanded in 1745. Severely damaged by Axis forces (1941-44), now continually restored, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Joseph Haydn's piano trio Hob. XV: 17, performed by Cologne Camerata, provides a historically apt accompaniment for the Great Palace architecture, landscape scenes and fountain studies.
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Saint Petersburg, Heremitage - Russia 4K Travel Channel
The Hermitage is the former winter palace of the Tsar in St. Petersburg. It is one of the largest and most important art museums in the world. The Hermitage is in the city center of Saint Petersburg, which belongs to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage.
The collection comprises nearly 3 million objects, of which only about 65,000 are on display. Every year, approximately 2.5 million people visit the Hermitage Museum
The spectrum of exhibits ranges from archaeological collections to Russian art and Central and Western European art, with the emphasis on painting.
On our arrival at the Palace Square, a huge queue has already formed. We observed the same in the Catherine Palace. Later we learned that there are several entrances and thus also several queues.
At first, we take a look around at Palace Square. In doing so, we learn that the Alexander Column is free-standing, and thus not fastened in any way. At first the citizens of St. Petersburg were afraid to pass by.
The archway of the General Staff building is impressive. Parts of this building now house parts of the modern Hermitage painting, such as the 31 paintings of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Another part of the Russian collection was transferred to the Russian Museum at the Mikhailovsky Palace.
Thanks to our guide we were able to avoid the queues and enter the Winter Palace at the archaeological collections. Here we reach the Jordan staircase, a baroque representative staircase.
On the first floor, we enjoy the view of the Neva River and the Hare Island. In the background, we recognize the first modern skyscraper, just being build by the oil company Rosneft.
In the Field Marshals' Hall, we admire see artfully designed chandeliers and vases. Then follows the Peter the Great Memorial Hall also known as the small throne room. The throne is in a shell-shaped wall niche.
An exhibition of ancient robes is currently on display in the splendid Armorial Hall. It detracts the attention from the fantastic chandeliers.
The War Gallery of 1812 houses 332 portraits of generals. A further ceremonial room, the St George's Hall or Great Throne Room follows. Here, is also an exhibition of robes. The throne was placed under a large canopy.
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Die Eremitage ist der ehemalige Winterpalast der Zaren in St. Petersburg. Sie beherbergt eines der größten und bedeutendsten Kunstmuseen der Welt. Die Eremitage liegt in der Sankt Petersburger Innenstadt, die zum UNESCO Weltkulturerbe gehört.
Zur Sammlung gehören nahezu 3 Millionen Objekte, von denen ungefähr 65000 ausgestellt sind. Ca. 2,5 Millionen Besucher besichtigen jährlich die Ausstellung.
Das Spektrum der Ausstellungsstücke reicht von Archäologischen Sammlungen, über Russische Kunst bis hin zu mittel- und westeuropäischer Kunst, wobei die Malerei im Vordergrund steht.
Bei unserer Ankunft am Palast Platz hat sich bereits eine riesige Warteschlange gebildet. Ähnliches konnten wir auch schon im Katharinenpalast beobachten. Später haben wir erfahren, dass es mehrere Eingänge und damit auch mehrere Warteschlangen gibt.
Zunächst sehen wir uns am Palast Platz etwas um. Dabei lernen wir, dass die Alexander Säule nur aufgestellt, aber in keinster Weise befestigt ist. Anfangs hatten die St. Petersburger Bürger Angst daran vorbei zu gehen.
Beeindruckend ist der Torbogen des Generalstabs. In Teilen dieses Gebäudes befinden sich mittlerweile Teile der modernen Malerei der Eremitage, wie z.B. die 31 Gemäldes des spanischen Malers Pablo Picasso. Ein weiterer Teil der russischen Sammlung wurde in das Russische Museum im Mikhaylovsky Palace (Michailowski-Palast) ausgelagert.
Nachdem wir, dank unserer Reiseleiterin, die Warteschlangen umgehen konnten und den Winter Palast bei den archäologischen Sammlungen betreten haben, erreichen wir die Jordantreppe (Ehrentreppe), eine barocke Repräsentationstreppe.
Im 1. Stock genießen wir erst einmal den Ausblick auf die Newa und die Haseninsel. Im Hintergrund erkennen wir das erste moderne Hochhaus, das der Gaskonzern Rosneft gerade erbaut.
Im Feldmarschallsaal gibt es kunstvoll gestaltete Kronleuchter und Vasen zu besichtigen. Danach folgt der Petersaal oder der kleine Thronsaal. In einer muschelförmigen Wandnische wurde der Thron aufgestellt.
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(Part 1/2) Masterpieces of the The Hermitage of St. Petersburg: The High Renaissance
This is an excellent documentary program that discusses some of the fine art in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Grand Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Peterhof Palace is a series of palaces and gardens located in Petergof, Saint Petersburg, Russia, commissioned by Peter the Great as a direct response to the Palace of Versailles by Louis XIV of France. Originally intended in 1709 for country habitation, Peter the Great sought to expand the property as a result of his visit to the French royal court in 1717, inspiring the nickname used by tourists The Russian Versailles In the period between 1714 and 1728, the architecture was designed by Domenico Trezzini, and the style he employed became the foundation for the Petrine Baroque style favored throughout Saint Petersburg. Also in 1714, Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond designed the gardens, likely chosen due to his previous collaborations with Versailles landscaper André Le Nôtre. Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli completed an expansion from 1747 to 1756 for Elizabeth of Russia. The palace-ensemble along with the city center is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Saint Petersburg - UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd , 19141924) and Leningrad , (19241991). It is often called just Petersburg (Russian: Петербург) and is informally known as Piter (Russian: Питер [ˈpitʲɪr]).
Founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia on 27 May 1703, it was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years (17131728, 17321918). Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917.[8] It is Russia's second largest city after Moscow with 4.6 million inhabitants, and over 6 million people live in its vicinity. Saint Petersburg is a major European cultural centre, and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
Saint Petersburg is often described as the most Western city of Russia. Among cities of the world with over one million people, Saint Petersburg is the northernmost. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is also home to The Hermitage, the largest art museum in the world.Russia's political and cultural centre for 200 years, the city is sometimes referred to in Russia as the northern capital. A large number of foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and other businesses are located in Saint Petersburg. ( source Wikipedia )
The Peacock Clock
For more than two centuries now the Hermitage has been adorned by a unique exhibit that never fails to evoke the enchanted admiration of visitors - the famous Peacock Clock. The figures of a peacock, cockerel and owl that form part of this elaborate timepiece-automaton are fitted with mechanisms that set them in motion.
The creation of mechanical birds had long been of interest to inventors: back in the Ancient World figures of singing birds had been used to embellish clepsydras - water clocks. In the 18th century the makers of automata tried to create a system that would enable their birds not only to sing, but also to behave as if alive, and they made them life-size. In the middle of the century, for example, the whole of Europe admired the mechanical duck made by the French craftsman Jacques de Vaucanson, which was able to eat, drink, move and behave in the most life-like manner.
The most celebrated creator of mechanisms of this sort in the second half of the 18th century was the London jeweller and goldsmith James Cox. His fertile imagination generated ideas that were then turned into reality by the craftsmen and mechanics of his company. Cox's firm produced a large number of elaborate automata, sumptuously decorated in a great variety of ways, for European and Eastern clients. Cox became truly famous, however, when in 1772 he opened his own museum - the Spring Gardens, in which he exhibited a large number of mechanical figures of exotic animals, birds and human beings. To fund the making of expensive automata Cox organized lotteries: in London in 1773 and in Dublin the next year. A surviving catalogue of the Dublin lottery lists two peacocks as numbers 6 and 8. From the description of the items it is clear that this pair of automata differed from the Hermitage composition: the peacock was perched on an oak stump, around which two snakes twined. There is no mention of the figures of a cockerel and owl, or of the mushroom that acts as the clock dial.
The history of the Hermitage's Peacock Clock begins in 1777, when the Duchess of Kingston visited St Petersburg. Balls were given in the Russian capital in honour of this wealthy and distinguished guest. Grigory Potiomkin, who met the Duchess in society, learned of James Cox's magnificent mechanisms. Pandering to Catherine II's passion for collecting, the Prince commissioned the celebrated craftsman to make a monumental automaton with a clock for the Empress's Hermitage. In order to meet this expensive order as quickly as possible, Cox, whose financial affairs were currently not in the best of health, decided to use an existing mechanical peacock that featured in the Dublin lottery. He expanded the composition with a cockerel, owl and a clock mechanism with a dial incorporated into the head of a mushroom, and removed the snakes. To create his new automaton, Cox recruited the assistance of Friedrich Jury, a German craftsman who had settled in London.
The Peacock Clock arrived in St Petersburg in 1781. The records of the Winter Palace chancellery listing the valuables that Catherine II acquired in that year include mention of two payments - on 30 September and 14 December - to the clockmaker Jury for a clock delivered from England. The payments amounted to 11,000 roubles (around 1,800 pounds sterling) and were made from the Empress's personal funds on the basis of a letter from Prince Potiomkin.
The clock was brought to Russia in pieces. At Potiomkin's request the Russian mechanic Ivan Kulibin set it in working order. From 1797 to the present day the Peacock Clock has been one of the Hermitage's most famous exhibits. It is, moreover, the only large 18th-century automaton in the world to have come down to us unaltered and in a functioning condition.
Inside The State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
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Inside Peterhof Palace, A UNESCO World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg Russia
Inside Peterhof Palace, A UNESCO World Heritage Site Called The Russian Versailles. It has about 30 rooms, including the ornate reception rooms, plastered to look like marble, with painted ceilings, inlaid parquet floors and gilded walls. It was adorned using almost all possible means of decoration: oil painted ceiling, tempera painted walls, stucco, wood carvings, wrought metal.
Saint Petersburg, Russia - Hermitage Museum (2018)
The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж, tr. Gosudárstvennyj Ermitáž) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The second-largest in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine's Day. It has been open to the public since 1852.
Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items (the numismatic collection accounts for about one-third of them), including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya, and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since July 1992, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky.
Of the six buildings in the main museum complex, five—namely the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage, New Hermitage, and Hermitage Theatre—are open to the public. The entrance ticket for foreign tourists costs more than the fee paid by citizens of Russia and Belarus. However, entrance is free of charge the first Thursday of every month for all visitors, and free daily for students and children. The museum is closed on Mondays. The entrance for individual visitors is located in the Winter Palace, accessible from the Courtyard.
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA: [ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk] (About this sound listen)) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with five million inhabitants in 2012. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27 [O.S. 16] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd (Russian: Петрогра́д, IPA: [pʲɪtrɐˈgrat]), on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad (Russian: Ленингра́д, IPA: [lʲɪnʲɪnˈgrat]), and on 7 September 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. Between 1713 and 1728 and in 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow.
Saint Petersburg is one of the modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. Many foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg hosted the games of 2018 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2020.