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Traditional meeting with journalists of the Hermitage pool Farewell to White Nights 16 July 2010 a traditional meeting with journalists of the Hermitage pool Farewell to White Nights was held. In the course of a walk at the Hermitage new exhibitions of modern art arranged within the framework of the Hermitage 20/21 project were presented to journalists: works by famous British sculptors Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley. By these expositions the Hermitage continues the program Sculpture in the Great Courtyard that opened by the Louise Bourgeois’s demonstration of spiders in 2001. The Foyer of the Hermitage Theater displays 24 graphic works by Ilya and Emilia Kabakovs that are included in the collection of artifacts donated by the authors to the State Hermitage. Employees of the Laboratory of scientific restoration of clocks and musical mechanisms of the State Hermitage (Head – M. Guriev) specially for the press-walk prepared a presentation of musical clocks from the Hermitage’s collection: besides a famous James Cox’s Peacock clock (1770s) Strasser’s Mechanical Orchestra was shown (1793 – 1801); Arakcheevsky mantel clock (1826 – 1828), the secretaire-clock with a mechanical organ created in 1792 by Johann Georg Strasser, and floor-based musical clock made in 1780s by David Roentgen and Peter Kinzing were wound for journalists for the first time. Employees of the Laboratory of scientific restoration of easel painting of the State Hermitage (Head – V. Korobov) have just completed the restoration of the ceiling-painting Gods on Olympus Mountain by a Venetian painter Gaspare Diziani (1689–1767). Journalists were the first to see the ceiling-painting and review the restoration works that are being carried out on the Jordanian Staircase. In the 65-year anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War part of the walk was dedicated to the siege theme. Journalists saw a “siege garden” reconstructed within the framework of restoring the Hanging Garden and the anniversary program Hermitage 2014 that is advised by an architect Rem Koolhaas. According to the State Hermitage’s data as of 1943, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, beet roots, root crops, turnips, dill, spinach, spring onions were planted in the Hanging Garden and the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace. In 2010 the garden was reconstructed based on the documents from the Scientific archives of the State Hermitage, including the pictures by A. Kaplun, V. Milyutina (1942) and V. Kuchumov (1945). Further it is planned to preserve the garden in this part of the Hanging Garden as a remembrance of the days of siege. In addition, a visit to the basement of the New Hermitage (which used to be a bomb shelter during the war) and the demonstration of pictures made there during the siege winter by Alexander Nikolsky were dedicated to the siege theme. At the end of the event a ceremony of raising a lantern was held at the Hermitage Courtyard. Created in the 19th century, this lantern was under restoration and after a continuous break it was raised. Along with journalists, the honor of raising the lantern was given to M. Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage, who in association with L. Leusskaya, journalist of the newspaper Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti, issued a volume of articles published in the newspaper over the last five years under the column View from the Hermitage.
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