The Winter Palace - Hermitage

Here rests a collection started by Catherine the Great and added to by others. The Hermitage museum rivals the Louvre for masterpieces of art. They have Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, DaVinci, Michael Angelo, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, and Van Gogh to name some. You could spend a lot more time here than we did, and it was crowded as six cruise ships are docked and they are bringing them in by the bus load. We kept moving throughout.Read more