A Visit to the Hermitage, St. Petersburg

It is said that if you spend a minute seeing every picture at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg it would take you nine years to finish. Every period of art is covered and treasures by masters on display. The Hermitage was also known as the Winter Palace or home of the Tsars. It was from the balcony that Nicholas II announced Russia’s entrée into WW I, almost four years to the day, he and his family were murdered.