Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Rooms 106-131: Antiquity
The Hermitage has more than 100,000 items from Ancient Greece and Rome, includ-
ing thousands of painted vases, antique gemstones, Roman sculpture and Greek gold.
Room 107
The Jupiter Hall is a sumptuous space with portraits of sculptors on the
ceiling.
Room 108
Designed by German neoclassicist architect von Klenze to imitate a Ro-
man courtyard.
Room 109
Peter I acquired the sculpture
Tauride Venus
from Pope Clement XI. This
piece - a Roman copy of a Greek original - was the first antique sculpture ever
brought to Russia.
Room 111
Another impressive design by von Klenze, this one was intended to be a
library (which explains the philosophers' profiles).
Room 130
Hall of Twenty Columns, containing a fabulous collection of Greco-Ro-
man clay urns.
Second Floor Highlights
The 2nd floor houses many of the Hermitage's highlights, including its unbeatable
Western European collection and its grandest state rooms.
Rooms 143-146: Hidden Treasures Revealed
These 19th- and 20th-century French oil paintings were confiscated by the Red Army
from private collections in Germany. The collection, including works by Monet,
Manet, Degas, Renoir, Pissaro, Cézanne, Seurat, Gaugin and Van Gogh, is stunning. If
you like this, there is more on the 3rd floor.
Rooms 151-161: Russian Culture & Art
Most of the western wing of the Winter Palace contains the huge collection from an-
cient Rus (10th to 15th centuries) up through to the 18th century, including artefacts,
icons, portraits and furniture.
Rooms 151 & 153
This long corridor, broken up by a vast clock, contains portraits
of all the Russian tsars from Peter the Great to Nicholas II.
