Boudoir of impress Mariya Aleksandrovna in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Raphael Loggias (a copy) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Room of Italian Art of the 13th to Early 15th Century in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Portrait of Peter the Great in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Malachite rotunda in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Parquet of Malachite Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Hall of Culture and Art of the Hellenistic Age in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Council Staircase in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Gallery of the Patriotic War of 1812 in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Library of Nicholas II of Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Saint George Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Decorations of White Hall of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Statue of Three Graces in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Large Italian Skylight Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Replicas of ancient art in Gallery of History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Main Staircase of the New Hermitage in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
White Hall (Hall No. 11) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Italian Cabinet in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Great Patriotic War of 1812 portrait hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Gold Drawing-room in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
A gallery of the Raphael Loggias in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Hall of Twenty Columns (ancient art) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Armorial Hall (Gerbovy, Emblem) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Dvortsovaya Square, Alexandriysky Stolp (Alexander Column, Pillar), and General Staff building from a window of Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 3:59 p.m. June 25, 2003
A sculpture and Italian art in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
The Majolica Room (Renaissance art) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Gallery of the Patriotic War of 1812 in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Room of Flemish Art in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
White Hall (No. 52) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Ayvazovsky painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Tent-Roofed Room (Dutch and Flemish art) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
The Hall of Twenty Columns (ancient art) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Vaults of Pavilion Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Vase and a candelabrum in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
View from Majolica Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Big French carriage in Field Marshals Hall in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Old Italian art in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Monolithic granite columns of Twenty-Column Hall (Ancient Italy) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Dvortsovaya Square, Alexandriysky Stolp (Alexander Column, Pillar), and Winter Palace (Hermitage museum). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 25, 2003
Marble statues near Main Staircase of New Hermitage in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Ceiling of Raphael Loggias in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Corridor of Raphael Loggias in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Leonardo da Vinci Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
The Raphael Loggias in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Gobelin tapestry in Leonardo da Vinci Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
G. I. Semiradsky painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
C. Brullov Hall with a bench for resting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Majolica Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
A corridor and Italian sculpture and art in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Room of Flemish Art in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Dvortsovaya Square, Alexandriysky Stolp (Alexander Column, Pillar), and Winter Palace (Hermitage museum). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 25, 2003
Tent-Roofed Room (Dutch and Flemish art) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Entrance of Majolica Room in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Ceiling of Majolica Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
A throne in Saint George Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Mirror and a malachite vase of Malachite Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Vaults of gallery of Raphael Loggias in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Vaults of the gallery of Raphael Loggias decorated with biblical paintings in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Mikhailovsky Palace (Russian Museum) at evening. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 26, 2005
Ivan Repin painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
The Majolica Room in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Carl Briullov hall in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
Ivanov(?) painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 1, 2005
Three Graces sculpture (mythological goddesses of Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia representing beauty, charm and joy) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Saint George Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Replicas(?) of ancient statues in Hercules Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Gilt State Chair (throne) in Saint George Hall in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Throne (Georgian) Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Dvortsovaya Square, Alexandriysky Stolp (Alexander Column, Pillar), and General Staff building from a window of Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 3:59 p.m. June 25, 2003
Ancient sculptures in the Hall of Culture and Art of the Hellenistic Age in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Gates of a yard of Hermitage Museum, with a Russian emblem. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Armorial Hall (Gerbovy Zal, Emblem Hall) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Looking at C. Brullov(?) painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Granite columns in the hall of ancient art in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Majolica Room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Gilded lantern of Armorial (Emblem) Hall in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Catherine the Great(?) statue in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 1, 2005
Karl Briullov Hall in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Raphael Loggias (a copy) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Decorated wooden closet in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Entrance stairs and colonnade of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 1, 2005
Decorated ceiling of the Large Italian Skylight Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Decorated bronze dish in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Candelabrum in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Museum keeper in Alexander Palace in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2010
Large Italian Skylight Hall in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2003
16th century Italian art in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Knights Hall (Rytsarsky Zal) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Back entrance of Hermitage museum, with Atlante s feet in foreground and Saint Isaac Cathedral in background. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
A passage to ancient art hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Statue of Jupiter in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Entrance stairs of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 1, 2005
Coats of arms in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Museum in a recently renovated Savior on Blood Church at Griboedova Canal. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.
Neva River and Vasilyevsky Ostrov from a window of Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Statue of Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
I. Repin paintings in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Statue of Jupiter in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Decorated ceiling of Twenty-Column Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Naked woman on a dish in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A statue of Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
A dish with J. Christ in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A sculpture on the wall at the main entrance of Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Re-creation of Soviet style kitchen in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
Details of a decorated metal shield in Knight Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Tourists crowding in front of painting of Rembrandt "Return of the Prodigal Son" in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Admiralty and Kunstcamera museum from colonnade of Saint Isaac Cathedral. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 4, 2003
Frogs on a dish by Bernard Palissy in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A junk train in a train museum in Shushary. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 6, 2004
An ancient sculpture in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
Kunstkamera Museum on Vasilyevsky Ostrov. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 1, 2000
Statues of warriors holding shields with coats of arms and heraldic emblems in Armorial (Emblem) Hall in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Ilya Repin painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Picasso Room in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Horse head sculpture in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Cupids on a dish in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Marble statue of a woman with a skull in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
A hall in Russian Museum, with A. E. Yakovlev and V. I. Shukhaev painting "Harlequin and Piero" to the left. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Protective glove in Knight Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Decorated brass shield in Knight Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Sculpture of two women with a fat butterfly in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Decorated brass dish in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A decoration in Alexander Hall in Hermitage museum (Winter Palace). Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Fragment of a marble statue in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Staring at Malevich "Black Square" painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Wax replica of a head of Russian tsar Peter the Great by B. K. Rastrelli in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, decorations on the ceiling (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
Sculpture "Nestor Letopisets" (Nestor Chronicler) by Mark Antokolsky in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Entrance to Petersburg University and Mendeleev Museum from Universitetskaya Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.
A hundred years old train car in a train museum in Shushary. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 6, 2004
Re-creation of Soviet style boiler-room (kotelnaya) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
A doorway in Benois Building (Corpus Benua) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
Sculpture of Charles James Fox by Joseph Nollekens (1791) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Museum guard in Benois Building (Corpus Benua) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
Granite feet of one of ten Atlantes supporting a portico of Hermitage Museum extension. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Sculpture Mephistopheles by Mark Antokolsky in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Re-creation of Stalin style office in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
Hall in Kshesinskaya Mansion, now Museum of Political History. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
Wooden stairs in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney and a Soviet-era exposition. The museum was settled in a former typewriting office (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
Marble statue of Nestor Letopisets in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 13, 2007
Woman s head on a painting of Giampietrino "The repented Magdalene" in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
View from a window of Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Gothic style room in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Eastern brass coffee pot in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Decorated wooden sewing machines(?) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 13, 2007
Long line of tourists standing in courtyard of Winter Palace in order to enter Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Relief showing surrendering city in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A hall of modern art in Benois Building (Corpus Benua) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
Incrustation showing fighting knights in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney and a Soviet-era exposition. (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
Horse in Knight Hall in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Gilded book cover decorated by figures of Christian saints in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A corridor in Benois Building (Corpus Benua) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
A. E. Yakovlev and V. I. Shukhaev painting "Harlequin and Piero" in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Museum staff during a break for smoking (perekur, in Russian), view from a window of Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Marble face of Charles James Fox by Joseph Nollekens (1791) in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
Museum of Water on Shpalernaya Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 27, 2007
A statue of Peter the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
People standing in line to enter Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007
People lining at the entrance of Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Details of a woman s head on a painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A likeness of tsar Alexander III at the entrance of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
Painting of a man in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A statue of Peter the Great, zoomed, in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
Ivory sculpture of madonna like woman with a child in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Figure of a tsar(?) on ivory in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Ancient terracotta figures of Herakles(?) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A. I. Sherstyuk in a museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, under portraits of founders of the institute (1918). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
Paintings of Malevich in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 13, 2007
Figure of sitting J. Christ, Scandinavia(?), 13th century(?) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Decoration with voting(?) saints on ivory plaque (book cover, Italy, early 12th century) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Head of an ancient mummy in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Terracotta head of an animal in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Malevich style terracotta figure in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Model of a ship in a city museum in Kronstadt, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 4, 2010
Ivory plaque showing line of naked men entering paradise (Gospel scenes, Germany, second half of 11th century) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Terracotta head of a woman in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Library of Nicholas II in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 2011
Wax replica of a head of Russian tsar Peter the Great by B. K. Rastrelli in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 2011
Armorial Hall (Gerbovy Zal, Emblem Hall) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 2011
