Was built in the years 1754-1762, is the most famous classical architecture of St. Petersburg is one of the mid-18th century Baroque architectural style of the outstanding example of architecture. Is located in St. Petersburg Palace square. This is a Baroque-style three-storey building, by the famous architect to design rust out. About 230 meters wide and 140 meters high 22 meters, was closed rectangle. Covers an area of 90,000 square meters, construction area of more than 46,000 square meters. Today, as part of the State Hermitage Museum. Now the museum occupies 5 buildings, there is world culture since ancient times the 2.7 million works of art, including paintings 15000, 12000 sculptures, 600 thousand line drawings, more than 100 million pieces of coins, medals and medals, as well as 224,000 practical works of art. Hermitage and London's British Museum, the Louvre in Paris, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, together called the world's four major museums.
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