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Other buildings and locations, assigned to the Russian museum, include the Summer Palace of Peter I (1710–1714) with the Summer Garden, the Marble Palace of Count Orlov (1768–1785), St Michael's Castle of Emperor Paul (1797–1801), the cabin of Peter the Great, and the Rastrelliesque Stroganov Palace on the Nevsky Prospekt (1752–1754).
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
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.
In 1902, when the Mikhailovsky Palace was turned into the Russian Museum, the eastern wing became the Russian Museum of Ethnography, a new address on Arts Square. [ 1 ] In August 1939, Isaak Brodsky died in his apartment on Arts Square, which then became a national museum.
The Kunstkamera (Russian: Кунсткамера) or Kunstkammer (German for "Culture Room" (literally) or "Art Chamber", typically used for a "cabinet of curiosities") is a public museum located on the Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg, facing the Winter Palace.
It was decided to establish a new institution dedicated to Russian art, and by personal decree on 13 April [O.S. 25 April] 1895 Nicholas II established the "Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III" and placed the Mikhailovsky Palace complex in its possession. [3]
Erarta is the largest private museum of contemporary art in Russia, located in Saint Petersburg. [1] The museum is combined with the Erarta Galleries. The name of Erarta Museum is derived from uniting two words, "Era" and "Arta", whose combination can be translated from Russian as "the era of art". [2] The museum has been recognised as one of ...
The Stieglitz Museum The exhibition hall. The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Russian: Санкт-Петербургская художественно-промышленная академия имени А. Л. Штиглица; abbreviated as СПГХПА) is the oldest school of design in Russia.