Masterpieces of Russian Culture and Art the Hermitage: Leningrad

📘 Not everyone knows that the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, with its excellent collection of art of Western European and Eastern countries, has a great deal of excellent examples of Russian culture and art. The collections of the museum, founded in 1764, have grown tremendously after the Great October Socialist Revolution. During the years of Soviet power it has become a treasury of art of truly national importance. The profound changes in scientific museum research and exposition in the Soviet years have led to the creation of a number of new departments. The youngest of them, the Department of the History of Russian Culture, was begun in May-April 1941 as a result of the Soviet people's growing interest in the history of Russia and its cultural legacy.