🖼 Hermitage Storage Facility "Staraya Derevnya"

Заусадебная ул., 37В

Open storage: carriages, the Emir of Bukhara's tent, furniture — by guided tour

The first phase of the storage facility opened in 2003, for Petersburg's 300th anniversary.
The tour route through the main storage building stretches for about a kilometre.
In the "Tapestry Theatre" the tapestries hang in huge frames on wheels that run on remote-controlled rails.
The cashmere military tent was given to Alexander III by the Emir of Bukhara, Abdul-Ahad Khan, in 1893 — you can see it both from outside and from inside.
The open furniture storage holds about a thousand examples of European furniture from the 16th–19th centuries.
The façade frame of the restoration building is decorated with petroglyphs from Onega and the White Sea, enlarged ten times.
In the courtyard there is an amphitheatre whose "spectators" are 33 spherical thuja trees.

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