Look - Hermitage!

Who in Russia has not heard about the Hermitage, the main museum of the country? The greatest treasury of art, magnificent palaces and collections - this museum really has something to be proud of. But the Hermitage is inexhaustible, and each new generation re -reveals this amazing place for itself. Why is the main staircase called Jordan? What did the soldiers save in a terrible palace fire in 1837? Through what doors could a huge stone Kolyvan vase go through and why is it needed at all? Rafael and Leonardo, Matisse and Monet, knights and mummies - to see all this, millions of people from all over the world come to the Hermitage every year. You and you - together with a philologist, local historian, teacher and author of numerous guidebooks in the cities of Russia Anna Rapoport.
For primary school children