A CONTEMPORARY SLICE OF ST. PETERSBURG

with art thanks to the State Hermitage Museum. Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and opened to the public in 1852, it is just slightly smaller than the Louvre yet holds nearly 10 times more in its collections. From ancient Scythian gold jewelry to masterpieces by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian, the Hermitage houses more than three million artworks, objects, and artifacts. Much of that is displayed in the jade-green Winter Palace, which stretches several