The Department of Russian Culture is one of those organized in the Museum after the October Revolution of 1917. It was created in 1941 and takes now 40 rooms of the Winter Palace. Special emphasis deserves the fact that it is the history of Russian culture and not the development of fine arts in Russia that the Hermitage is intended to demonstrate, the Russian School being represented in about 100 museums and art galleries of the country, of which the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg are the noteworthiest. Continue Reading »
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THE DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CULTURE
RUSSIAN CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE – AND THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18th CENTURY
Bronze portrait bust of Peter I
Adjoining the Gallery of Peter I are rooms housing the material relating to the history of RUSSIAN CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE-AND THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18th CENTURY (Hermitage, 1st floor, rooms 187—173, 190). Here are paintings, drawings, and water-colours representing outstanding architectural monuments and giving evidence of the high level of the Russian architecture of the period in question; genuine works of art illustrative of Russian portrait and landscape painting; books and manuscripts of great value relating to the complicated social history of the eighteenth-century Continue Reading »
RUSSIAN CULTURE OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19th CENTURY
RUSSIAN CULTURE OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19th CENTURY. Hermitage, rooms 172- 167) is represented by the material of the same kind as the above mentioned. The most notable historic events of the epoch — the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Decembrists’ uprising of 1825 -are illustrated by a number of historical documents as well as by contemporary paintings, prints and drawings, among the noteworthiest being those representing the leaders of the Decembrists’ uprising. Continue Reading »