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Kazan Cathedral, now not a museum as such, but formerly housing Museum of Religion and Atheism (presently occupying a different building, the State Museum of the History of Religion [51]); designed by Andrey Voronikhin, the cathedral resembles Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica and is a monument to Russia's victory in Napoleonic Wars of 1812-14
A museum of the city's history was established in 1908 as the Museum of Old Saint Petersburg . It became the City Museum in 1918, and then the Museum of History and Development of Leningrad in 1938. In 1951 it was renamed the Museum of Architecture of Leningrad, and in 1953 it became the State Museum of the History of Leningrad. During the ...
Russia is home to museums that include the Tretyakov Gallery, the Kremlin Armoury and the State Historical Museum in Moscow, the Hermitage Museum, and the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, the Kazan Kremlin in Kazan, etc. [citation needed] Russia has museums related to its literary and classical music heritage, such as Yasnaya Polyana associated ...
The State Museum of Political History of Russia (known as the State Museum of Revolution before August 1991) is a political museum located in Saint Petersburg. It archives and showcases the political history of the Russian Federation. [1] Before 1917, one of the buildings belonged to Mathilde Kschessinska.
The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: Государственный Эрмитаж, romanized: Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, IPA: [ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ]) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the largest collection of paintings in the world [3] [4].
The Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps (Russian: Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи), also known simply as the Artillery Museum, is a state-owned military museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Russian Museum of Ethnography (Российский этнографический музей) is a museum in St. Petersburg that houses a collection of about 500,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Apartment Museum of Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Музей-квартира И. А. Бродского) is an informal memorial museum, created in 2006 on behalf of the governor of St. Petersburg, in order to preserve the memory of the cultural and literary period 1960-1990, the central figure of which is the poet and Nobel laureate, Joseph Brodsky.