First Hermitage Day


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August 18th 2016
Published: August 18th 2016
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Today was the first Hermitage day for us With our two day online Hermitage tickets. the Hermitage is like an unfathomable labyrinth of treasures of art. The more you see the more there is to see. Every turning gives new choices of which room to turn to next. Luckily, as we both wanted to see the Impressionists rooms first we spotted a sign saying that they were in the Admiralty building across the square from the Winter Palace so we made our way there for our first treat. I have uploaded a few of the treats.


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Besson. The miners.Besson. The miners.
Besson. The miners.

I had not heard of Besson. This is a great picture.
Van Dongen. Lucie and her Dance Partner.Van Dongen. Lucie and her Dance Partner.
Van Dongen. Lucie and her Dance Partner.

I had not heard of van Dongen. Thus is a v powerful and unusual painting


19th August 2016

So European
So European, your trip walking around the city reminds me of wandering in Rome, and Paris. Your photos of the Armitage look like Bamberg. I hadn't expected it to be so familiar somehow I had imagined an unknown and undescribed culture...a sort of exotic blank canvas, if that is possible!! even the weather is unpredictably Northern European! xx

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