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      The Hermitage in one day

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Winter Palace and the Impressionists of the General Staff Building — all of it under one roof.

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        🖼 State Hermitage (Winter Palace)
        Дворцовая пл., 2
        🎟 ticket · free for concession holders on the third Thursday of the month
        Rastrelli's turquoise-and-white palace on the Neva — the tsars' main residence, now one of the largest museums in the world.
        Jordan Staircase, Pavilion Hall, the “Peacock” clock
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        State Hermitage (Winter Palace)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        State Hermitage (Winter Palace)
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Hermitage dates from 1764, when 317 paintings of the merchant Gotzkowsky were handed to Catherine II from Berlin in settlement of a debt.
        • The present Winter Palace is the fifth one: built in 1754–1762, it became the tallest residential building in St Petersburg and had about 1,500 rooms.
        • The fire of 1837 destroyed all the palace's interiors, but under Stasov and Bryullov it was restored in just two years.
        • The Jordan Entrance is named after the "Jordan" ice hole: at Epiphany the royal family went out through it onto the ice of the Neva.
        • On 5 February 1880 the Narodnaya Volya member Stepan Khalturin set off a bomb in the palace, aiming at Alexander II: 11 guard soldiers died, the emperor was unharmed.
        • From October 1915 to November 1917 a hospital named for Tsarevich Alexei operated in the Winter Palace's state rooms.
        • The Hermitage collection was evacuated during the war, and not a single exhibit was lost.
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      3. 2
        🖼 General Staff Building (Hermitage)
        Дворцовая пл., 6–8
        🎟 ticket · included in the Hermitage single ticket
        Rossi's semicircular building with an arch on Palace Square; its east wing holds Hermitage exhibition halls under glass roofs.
        Matisse, Monet, Picasso on the 4th floor
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        General Staff Building (Hermitage)
        © Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0
        General Staff Building (Hermitage)
        © Alexey Komarov · CC BY 3.0
        General Staff Building (Hermitage)
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1819–1829 to a design by Carlo Rossi; until 1917 it housed the Army General Staff, the Foreign Ministry and the Finance Ministry.
        • The arch is crowned by Victory in a chariot drawn by six horses — the work of the sculptors Stepan Pimenov and Vasily Demut-Malinovsky.
        • To lighten the chariot, the figures were hammered out of copper over a cast-iron frame — making the sculptural group five times lighter.
        • On 30 August 1918 the chairman of the Petrograd Cheka, Moisei Uritsky, was killed in the entrance of the east building.
        • The east wing was transferred to the Hermitage in 1999, and its full reconstruction was finished in 2013.
        • The wing fully opened on 28 June 2014 with the Manifesta 10 biennial — Matisse's "Dance" and "Music" were moved here at the same time.
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      5. 3
        ☕️ Stolle on Nevsky
        Невский пр., 11
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        Pies after the museum
        🍴 A pie shop of the St Petersburg chain Stolle at the start of Nevsky: open and closed pies by weight, soup and hot dishes at the counter. What to order: a cabbage pie, a lingonberry or blueberry pie, borscht, homemade pelmeni (dumplings).

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