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Combine some of the main galleries and chambers of the Hermitage Museum with a visit to its resplendent Gold Room. One of the world’s richest repositories of art, the Hermitage showcases Catherine the Great’s massive collection, once only accessible to her and her courtiers. You will tour its four main buildings—the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Old Hermitage and the New Hermitage. In the Winter Palace, accompany a guide to the elegant Throne Room where tsars received visitors; the Pavilion Hall with its gilded columns; and the Gallery of 1812, where 332 portraits of Russian generals hang. Finally, visit the glittering Gold Room, housing the world-famous collection of Scythian ornaments from the 7th to the 4th centuries BC. These remarkably intricate pieces were excavated from ancient burial sites in the Cossack and Black Sea regions and are part of the oldest gold collection of its size ever uncovered.
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