Hermitage Museum Cats Website
The cats now numbering about 70 live in the Hermitage since its foundation in 1764 to protect the mice from the numerous works of art that house the galleries of the gallery.
Hermitage museum cats website. The cats of the Hermitage are according to their director Mikhail Piotrovski an important part of the life of the museum and one of its living legends. Also youll be glad to know that more than 35 of orders are done before The Hermitage Cats. In 1745 Peter the Greats daughter Empress Elisabeth issued a decree ordering that the finest cats of Kazan a city on the Volga river be found the biggest the ones best-suited to catching mice so that they can be sent to Her Majestys court.
Petersburg is now the second largest art. Russias hermitage museum is stuffed with cats by alanna martinez 111715 301pm this picture taken on october 14 2015 reveals a cat in entrance of the state hermitage museum in st. A Hermitage cat.
The cats first took up residence inside the Hermitage well before it was a museum in 1745 when Empress Elisabeth put out a call for the finest cats of Kazan to help catch mice in what was. Well this was refreshing to watch this morning. Petersburg famous museum The Hermitage has a secret collection a tradition of allowing a herd of cats to roam over much of the grounds and live in the basement.
Guided excursions programmes and digital academy. Around 70 cats guard the grounds of the Hermitage museum. Russia and St Petersburg Albums.
Treasures From The State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg The Hermitage Museum we could do it even faster. The hermitage cats are a gaggle of cats residing within the hermitage museum in saint petersburg russia. Эрмитажные коты are a bunch of cats residing within the hermitage museum in saint petersburg russiathe museum has a press secretary devoted to.
Photo is taken from the website. Petersburg to the court of His Imperial Majesty. Keeping the furry animals in the museum is supported by some charity funds both local and foreign.