Art museum where the history is engraved
Sentence / Eriko Fujiwara
Many museums famous in Europe, such as the Louvre Museum, the Prado Museum, and the Vienna Museum of Art History, were founded around a collection of former royal nobles. One of them is the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, which boasts a collection of 3 million items. The protagonist is Sophie Augusta Frederique, who came from the German noble family, and married to Prince Peter III of the Russian Empire.
She studied Russian strongly and changed from Lutheran neocracy to Russian orthodox, and changed her name to Catherine in a Russian style. However, the relationship with her husband is estranged. Since the policy was also different, the coup deprived her of the throne from her husband, and made second as Catherine II. With the expansion of the territory, we will try to modernize Russia and form the Russian empire as a cultural state like France, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.
Her collection of European art, which began in 1764, was an important means to show the prestige of the Russian empire, which was culturally underdeveloped, inside and outside the country. With a huge amount of money, he has acquired 14,000 paintings and drawings, 38,000 books, 10,000 cameo and other jewelry, and 16,000 coins. The coronal portrait of Ekaterina, who has been exhibited in the “Great Hermitage Exhibition,” is filled with the scale of the scale that can be said to be a gospel. 
Wigilius Eriksen "Portrait of Catherine II in the Coronation Robe" 1760s Oil on canvas © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017-18
Ekaterina's successors will continue to collect works of art. However, the Russian Revolution destroyed the Romanov dynasty, the Leningrad hug by the German army during World War II, the harsh oppression of Stalin era, and the Hermitage will be imprinted with the very history of Russia.
A documentary film that can touch such history was also released. Above all, the state of the Leningrad hug over about 900 days is shocking. Under severe conditions where goods were cut off by hug and a third of the citizens died, the director and staff members who evacuated to the basement of the art museum continued to study while suffering from jealousy. A historical picture scroll interwoven with art and politics. It is a great opportunity to get to the edge through exhibitions and movies. 
Hermitage Revealed © Foxtrot Hermitage Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Distribution Fine Films
You can watch it at the "Large Hermitage Museum Exhibition"! ※ Period is over
Crowned at the age of 33. Her father, Peter III, was a German favorite, while she from Germany was more likely to be a Russian than a Russian. In a figure full of confidence wearing a crowned costume, does the bloody effort be hidden? Not only the collection of works of art but also the communication with the enlightenment thinkers of Diderot et al in France, it is a portrait of a strong sense of will that he was an intellectual monarch. 
You can watch it in the movie "Hermitage Museum-A Palace that Protects Beauty"!
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The father of the current director, Mikhail Piotrosky, was Boris Piotroski, who served as director during the tough times of World War II to the Stalin era. During the Stalin era, he was sent to concentration camps with other officials as "people's enemies". Therefore, the words of the current director, "Museums can not be unrelated to politics," include the "weight of history," which is hidden behind brilliant works of art. 
Erimi Fujiwara (Eri Fujihara)
Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts (Major / Aesthetics). Part-time lecturer at the University of Women's Art College
My motto is "I'm serious about being stupid", and I am having fun and having fun every day.
