The Hermitage Guide

The Hermitage ranks with the very finest of the world’s art museums.It contains more than two and a half million works of art representing different ages,countries and peoples.The history of the Hermitage is closely connected with that of the buildings which house the present-day museum.The Winter Palace and the three buildings of the Hermitage, conventionally called the Small Hermitage, of the Old Hermitage and the New Hermitage, and united by a series of covered passage-ways,form one of the most superb architectural ensembles in Leningrad.