The Most Beautiful Halls of the Hermitage

The Hermitage is one of the world's top 20 most visited museums. The order of Catherine II founded it.

Now the Hermitage collection contains about 3 million pieces of art. So, for example, in the Hermitage, you can see 24 paintings by Rembrandt. This is the most extensive collection of his works outside the Netherlands, where the artist was born and worked.

There are about 3 million works of art in the halls and vaults of the Hermitage, which are stored in 350 halls of the museum. You would have to walk 24 kilometers to walk through them all. A minute's contemplation of each exhibit will take you eight years of your life without sleep or rest!

Few people know, but on the roof of the Winter Palace, the main building of the Hermitage, there are 176 sculptures. The architect placed them there to hide the stovepipes.