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St. Petersburg and the Hermitage:
Wonder and Opulence
Dr. Julia Zarankin
April, 2016
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Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Painting by Paul Delaroche, 1838
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Peter’s CityOriginally named Sant-
Piterburkh
(later became Sankt-
Peterburg)
Renamed Petrograd
(1915)
Renamed Leningrad
(1924)
Renamed Sankt
Peterburg (1991)
Referred to as Piter
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St. Petersburg: WINDOW ONTO EUROPE
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Moscow: A City of Onion Domes
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City of Spires
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Alexandre Benois “Peter Meditating on the Building of St. Petersburg” (1916)
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Alexander Nevsky Monastery
(1710)
Architect: Domenico Trezzini
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Peter’s Summer Palace
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Twelve CollegiaDomenico Trezzini
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Peterhof Architect: Jean-Baptiste Le Blond
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First Winter PalaceDomenico Trezzini (1711)
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A New Metropolis
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Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
• 1716-1788
• Transformed St Petersburg
• Responsible for creating St. Petersburg’s character
• Chief builder under Empress Anna and Elizabeth
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Tsarskoe SeloRastrelli
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Rastrelli’s WINTER PALACE
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Empress
Catherine II
Reign: 1762-96
Sophie Frederike
Auguste von Anhalt-
Zerbst
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Catherine as Minerva
Goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, crafts, inventor of music
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Winter Palace & Hermitage
Winter Palace (1754-62)
(Bartolomeo Rastrelli)
Small Hermitage (1767-69)
(Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe)
Old Hermitage (1771-87)
(Yuri Velten)
Hermitage Theatre (1883-87)
(Giacomo Quarenghi)
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Catherine’s Hermitage Theatre
Architect: Giacomo Quarenghi
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Hermitage Theatre interior
Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico
in Vicenza
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Winter Canal
Designed by Quarenghi
Houses the Raphael Loggias
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Raphael Loggias in Hermitage
Adorned by C. Unterberger, 1780
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Monument to Peter the Great(Etienne Marie Falconet)
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100 of Russian Portraiture
Simon Ushakov, 1660 Dmitry Levitsky, 1770s
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Alexander I1801-1825
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Gallery of the Patriotic WarHermitage
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Palace Square
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Nicholas I
• 1825-1855
• Younger brother of Alexander I
• Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Patriotism
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Out with Voltaire!
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Winter Palace Fire December 17, 1837 (B. Green)
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New Hermitage(architect: Leo von Klenze)
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Kolyvan Vasein the Hermitage
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St. George’s HallThrone Room
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Malachite Room
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Nicholas I Transforms Hermitage into “Public” Museum, February 5, 1852
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Vladimir Lenin:Art Belongs to the People!
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Stalin takes over in 1924
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Andrew Mellon and the Hermitage
• Buys 21 treasures from Hermitage in 1930 for 6.6 million
• Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Van Dyke, Titian, Velasquez…
• Donates paintings to National Gallery in DC
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Van Eyck and Raphael sold
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Raphael and WatteauCatherine’s Treasures
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State Hermitage during Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944)
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Hermitage Today