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This gallery, which acquired its present décor
in the 1880s, is hung with portraits of members of the Romanov dynasty
- from Peter the Great (1672-1725), the founder of the Russian Empire,
to the last emperor, Nicholas II (1868-1918). From the reign of Empress
Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-1761), who commissioned the construction
of the Winter Palace, the life of the imperial family was inseparably
linked to the history of the present-day Hermitage buildings. Under
Catherine II, mistress of the Winter Palace from 1762, the Small and
Large Hermitages and Hermitage Theatre were built. Her grandson, Nicholas
I (1796-1855), ordered the construction of the Imperial Museum - the
New Hermitage. |
