Inside the State Hermitage Museum
Description
Founded by Catherine the Great, the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of the world's oldest and largest museums boasting 3 million treasures of art and antiquity, and visited by over 2 million people every year. Inside the Hermitage, we shine infra-red light on blackened mummies to reveal the strange tattoos of an ancient race, then visit a chamber of horrors to investigate why Peter the Great had a penchant for the macabre. We enter the private chambers of Catherine the Great to discover a device she used to improve her sex life. We re-examine the physical evidence of Rasputin's murder to uncover his real killer's surprising identity, then meet aged curators who risked their lives to save the museum's treasures from Hitler's bombs. And finally, in a gallery devoted to famous paintings, we reveal why dictator Joseph Stalin hated a black square canvas, and why today it is worth a million dollars.
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42 min
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Date of Publication
[2014], c2012
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