The State Hermitage Museum

Read the short text and choose the correct heading to it. Located between the Neva River and Palace Square, the Hermitage Museum complex consists of five buildings – Winter Palace, Large Hermitage, Small Hermitage, New Hermitage, and the Theatre of Catherine the Great.

Read the short text and choose the correct heading to it. In 1764, the Hermitage was founded by Catherine the Great, the originator and leading practitioner of Art without Borders. That year, she owned a major collection of 225 paintings by Flemish and Dutch masters that had originally been assembled for Frederick II of Prussia.

Read the short text and choose the correct heading to it. Each of the Hermitage buildings was designed by a celebrated architect from the 18th and 19th centuries. The most famous of the buildings is the Winter Palace, designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli that was the residence of the Russian emperors until 1917. Today the buildings house part of the Hermitage’s unique European, Russian, Impressionist and Modern, Roman, Greek, Islamic, and Egyptian collections.

Read the short text and choose the correct heading to it. The Hermitage Museum is home to almost 3,000,000 art items. The art dates back to the Stone Age era up to the present. Even the original collection of Catherine the Great is still displayed in the Hermitage Museum building.

Read the short text and choose the correct heading to it. The collections include various types of art. There are Egyptian antiquities and classical antiquities. There is prehistoric art, jewellery and decorative art, Italian Renaissance, and Italian and Spanish fine art.

Read the text and choose the correct answers to the questions. The cat guards of the Hermitage Museum are usually named as the Hermitage Cats. They are a group of cats that live in the complex of Hermitage Museum. Back in the old days, the cats were walking throughout the museum galleries. These days, most of the cats live in the basement of the museum. During summer, the cats sometimes walk in the square. In 1745 Empress Catherine II asked to only choose the best hunters of rats to live in the museum. She even called the Hermitage Cats the security guards of the art galleries. There is an annual festival which is dedicated to the Hermitage Cats. On the day of the festival, the museum allows the visitors to visit the cellars of the Winter Palace where the cats live.

Fill in the gaps with the correct words. During her Catherine the Great over 4,000 paintings, 38,000 books, 10,000 engraved gems, 10,000 drawings, 16,000 and medals. Catherine the Great the collections of the older museums. The collections so fast that she to decide to design a building which would have 1,000 rooms.

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