There is only one museum larger than the Hermitage in the world.
1. the Prado
2. the State Russian Museum
3. the Louvre
4. Versailles
The official residence of Russian emperors was _____
1. the Admiralty
2. the St. Michael’s Castle
3. the Winter Palace
4. the Summer Palace of Peter I
The word “hermitage” means _________
1. a public place where tsars live
2. a solitary place where a hermit lives
3. a solitary place where prisoners live
4. a place where one can drink tea or coffee
The story of the Hermitage collections began in ________
1. 1812
2. 1825
3. 1764
4. 1917
The first paintings were bought in ______
1. Venice, Italy
2. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
3. Berlin, Germany
4. Moscow, Russia
The fire in the place was in ________
1. 1942
2. 1837
3. 1815
4. 1737
The restoration of the Palace was under the direction of _________
1. Giacomo Quarenghi
2. Bartolomeo Rastrelli
3. Vasily Stasov
4. Leon von Klenze
The collections of the Hermitage are divided into ________
1. 7 departments
2. 6 departments
3. 5 departments
4. 10 departments
3 million works of art are exhibited in ________
1. 3 buildings
2. 5 buildings
3. 2 buildings
4. 6 buildings
The main entrance of the New Hermitage is decorated with __________
1. 10 atlantes
2. 10 statues of nymphs and muses
3. statue of Peter the Great
4. wooden gilded doors
The fire was in the reign of ______
1. Catherine the Great
2. Peter the Great
3. Nicholas I
4. Elizabeth Petrovna
Apart from sketches, carvings, sculptures, objects of applied art, Catherine the Great bought ___________
1. books
2. carriages
3. clothes
4. newspapers
Catherine the Great acquired the library of __________
1. Peter the Great
2. Voltaire
3. Gotzkowsky
4. Menshikov
The first building known as Hermitage was _________
1. the Winter Palace
2. the Old Hermitage
3. the Hermitage Theatre
4. the Small Hermitage
5. the New Hermitage