As a first time visitor to the Hermitage, I will be able to talk more about impressions and what it feels like to wander through such a place rather than being able to give very authoritative information. Furthermore, I will try not to become too repetitive with such phrases as "I think" or "to the best of my understanding". I will trust that my readers will keep this warning in mind and forgive me when I get things wrong. So, let me start about the Hermitage.
The Hermitage is much more than just an art gallery, it
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A part of the Winter Palace
This is a part-view of the Hermitage from the River Neva. It gives...
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The rest of the Winter Palace and -
. . . further parts of the Hermitage. Though I have walked a long distance...
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An Artist's Aerial Rendition
This particular illustration is from the Information brochure of the museum.
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The Entrance to the Hermitage -
This is a busy place.
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I have time to look around.
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More people are arriving, and we are -
. . . getting closer
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We've almost made it to the door.
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The State Staircase
We are inside the Winter Palace and climb this staircase known as the State...
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A detail of the windows above -
the staircase.
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The ceiling of a room we pass through.
Paint, and sculpted figures and gilded frame
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Just one more room in the tsar's palace
We have yet to reach the rooms used to exhibit the Hermitages extensive art...
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And still, another room
And as everywhere else in Russia, if it looks like gold, it is.
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The tsar's throne room
But this is a shot impossible for a visitor to get. The crowds are just too...
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. . .for usually there is a crowd.
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The Tsars Throne
When we passed through this room, our guide told us the following cute little...
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Room after room -
. . . surprised with the richness of its detail, and yet, how could...
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Having looked at the ceiling, -
. . . one looked at the floor and evertywhere there were new details,...
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And what is this?
A floor, perhaps, a ceiling? Yet either way, the photo carries only a...
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An intricately carved work of art
Just what it was intended for, escapes my mind. As wonderful as it was...
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Even the doors and floors -
. . . are works of art.
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But now there's also the art -
. . . which was collected by the tsars to be displayed in their own, private...
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Not terribly comfortable, I suspect, -
but intriguing and beautiful nonetheless.
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Another chair -
. . . elaborately carved.
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And now a disappointment -
and confession. I undertook this trip with a new camera, one that I had not...
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Following a guide -
. . . through the Hermitage.
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Eastern Europe
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