In the Hermitage will tell about how the former imperial residence became a museum complex

Exhibition in the Winter Palace will be devoted to the chief architect of the State Hermitage Alexander Sivkov under the leadership of whom rooms of the Winter Palace and buildings the complex, adjacent to it, became uniform museum space. On an exposition you learn how the museum exhibition complex in 1920-e/50-e years was formed, about restorations buildings after October revolution and restoration after the Great Patriotic War. You will see about three hundred subjects: photos, documents and drawings, water colors and drawings, architectural details. More than two hundred things will show museum for the first time. In...