The State Hermitage occupies five majestic buildings along Neva River Embankment in the center of St. Petersburg: Winter Palace, Small, Big and New Hermitages, Hermitage theater. The part of an exposition of the museum is placed in Menshikov's palace and the former General Staff Building at Palace Square.
In two and a half centuries in the Hermitage one of the largest collections of world art numbering about three million monuments representing cultural heritage of various people since the Stone Age and up to now has been collected.

Halls of the first floor of the New Hermitage are allocated for exhibiting of collections of ancient art. One of the richest sections of the museum is devoted to art of Italy. Works of Renaissance are exposed in halls of the Big Hermitage. Pearls of this meeting are "Madonna Litta" and "Madonna Benoa" belonging to Leonardo da Vinci's brush. Here it is possible to see Raphael, Titian, Dzhodzhone, Michelangelo's works. Velasquez, El Greco, Murilyo's canvases are exhibited at halls of the Spanish painting. Art of Holland and Flanders is presented by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Sneyders, Hals's pictures. The excellent collection of works of the French artists includes L. Lenen, N. Poussin, Ge. S. Chardin, E. Delacroix's works. The Hermitage collection of pictures of impressionists and postimpressionists is of great value. In this exposition there are works of such outstanding masters as O. Renoir, P. Picasso, W. Van Gogh.

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