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      🏛 Atlantes of the New Hermitage

      Миллионная ул., 35

      Ten granite figures holding up the museum's portico, each about five metres tall.

      Atlantes of the New Hermitage
      © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The atlantes were carved in 1846 from grey Serdobol granite by the sculptor Alexander Terebenev and 150 stonecutters.
      • The model for the figures was made by the Munich sculptor Johann von Halbig, based on the atlantes of the Temple of Zeus at Akragas in Sicily.
      • A curiosity: these mighty figures strain enormously to hold up only a light balcony.
      • The atlantes guard the entrance to the New Hermitage — Russia's first building constructed specially for a public museum (1842–1851).
      • Nicholas I commissioned the New Hermitage from the Munich architect Leo von Klenze after a trip to Munich in 1837.

      Part of these routes

      • Atlantes, Winter Canal and Millionnaya
      • Atlantes and Millionnaya: the long walk
      • Hermitage with a child: knights, a mummy, the Peacock
      • The Atlantes, the Winter Canal and Millionnaya

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