The Amsterdam Hermitage, a museum of Russian art in Amsterdam that assembled its collection in cooperation with the famed State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, said on Thursday it was ...

Hermitage Amsterdam director Annabelle Birnie told NRC Handelsblad that there are plans to rename the museum in order to break off any possible link with the Hermitage in St Petersburg. She said ...

Amsterdam’s Hermitage Museum, once the largest satellite of the St. Petersburg institution, will be rebranded as H’ART Museum after severing ties with Russia, it announced on Monday.

Barring times of strife such as the 1941-1944 Siege of Leningrad (St Petersburg’s name during Soviet times), when residents were forced to eat whatever they could find and 1.2 million of them ...

Empress Elizabeth I ordered by decree that cats be brought all the way from the city of Kazan, roughly 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) southeast of St. Petersburg, to catch mice in the palace basement.

Hermitage Day was held in March at the National Museum in Muscat, where Piotrovsky, who is dean of St Petersburg University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, also gave a talk in Arabic on “the ...