Monday, December 14, 2015

The New (Now Old) Hermitage Museum in Russia

The New Hermitage, 1842 - 51. L. von Klenze

This postcard is postmarked in 2015 with four stamps from Russia. (There are two of the 10P stamps.)

The sender sent me this message:
 Fyi (for your information) Hermitage originated as a private collection of Catherine II. The collection housed in this building, so now it is called the Old Hermitage.

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The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture with six buildings in St Petersburg, Russia.  Five of them are open to the public. They are the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage (in the postcard), New Hermitage and Hermitage Theatre.
Definitive Issue
Kremlins 
Moscow Kremlin
10 p.
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Russia stamp 2009
Definitive Issue
Kremlins 
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
4.00
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Russia stamp 2009
Definitive Issue
Kremlins 
Rostov Kremlin
3.00

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