My Hermitage: How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to Become the Greatest Museum in the World

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In a memoir, the museum’s longtime director takes the reader on a private tour of this global treasure. Holding one of the crucial largest collections of Western art on this planet, the Hermitage could also be a product of Russia and its dramatic history. Founded by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, the stunning Winter Palace used to be built to house her growing number of Old Masters and to serve as a home for the imperial circle of relatives. Tsars came and went over time, works of art were acquired and sold, buildings were burned down in terrible fires, and still the collections grew. After the violent upheavals of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the palaces and collections were opened to the public.

Now, in an unprecedented number of illuminating essays, Piotrovsky explores the cultural history of a collection as wealthy in adventure as art. From fascinating intrigues to revelatory scholarship on the collection’s implausible art and artifacts, My Hermitage is a profound and captivating story of art’s timelessness and how it brings people together.

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