The Rules for the Administration of the Imperial Hermitage laid down that two museum attendants - the usher and his assistant, the stoker - should make sure that all visitors entered their names in a special book, left their outdoor clothing - coats of all kinds "and also galoshes, walking-sticks and umbrellas" in the cloakroom where it was to be kept, and were dressed "decently and tidily". Members of the armed forces were expected to be in uniform, civil servants in dress-suits, others in clothing appropriate to their estate. Artists making copies were permitted to wear overcoats.