Russia: More photos from 3/15/2017
Chandelier in the Winter Palace
White dining room, where the Bolsheviks took control of the provisional government in Red October 1917 at 2:10 a.m.
White dining room, where the Bolsheviks took control of the provisional government in Red October 1917 at 2:10 a.m.
View of the Strekla across the Neva River from the Hermitage
Giraffe piano at the Hermitage
Peter the Great's Tools
Chandelier in the Winter Palace
Siberian felt carpet, 4th - 3rd century B.C.
Siberian wool pile carpet, 4th - 3rd century B.C.
2500 year old Siberian funeral chariot
Lunch at the Hermitage Cafe
Small Throne Room
Armorial hall
Uniform in which Alexander II was assassinated by an explosive device
Gallery of 1812
Jan Fabre: I let myself drain (Dwarf) (I) - 2007
Lamentaton, 16th century stained glass. The detail is so amazing that you can even see droplets of blood on Jesus' forehead
Rubens' Portrait of a Lady-in-Waiting to the Infanta Isabella
Da Vinci's The Madonna with a Flower (Benois Maadonna), 1478
Jan Fabre: mosaics made with the wing cases of the jewel scarab beetle
Hermitage: General Staff Building
Hermitage: Winter Palace
Jan Fabre: Me, dreaming, 1978
Degas: Seated Dancer
Renoir: Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary
Gaugin: Piti Teina (Two Sisters)
Van Gogh: Ladies of Arles (detail)
Matisse: Dance
Picasso: Seated Nude, 1909
Peter the Great's uniform
Rothschild Faberge Egg, 1902
Artwork packaged to travel
Alexander Column, Winter Palace