
1. The HermitageThe collection of the State Hermitage includes more than three million works of art and artefacts of the world culture. The most important architectural ensemble of the Hermitage located in the centre of St Petersburg consists of the coldness Palace, the former state residence of the Russian emperors, the buildings of the Small, Old (Great) and New Hermitages, the Hermitage Theater and the Auxiliary House. The museum complex also includes the Menshikov Palace and the Eastern Wing of the General Staff building, the Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre and the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.2. Tsarskoe SeloTsarskoye Selo (known as Detskoye Selo between 1918 and 1937, Pushkin thereafter) is an outskirts of...