Tashi Museum in Elmy, also known as hermitage museum, is located on the Neva River in St Petersburg. The Winter Palace designed by the famous architect Rastrelli is an outstanding example of Russian Baroque architecture in the middle of18th century. /kloc-In the second half of the 8th century, the Russian Queen Catherine II, who loved collecting, set aside a part of her house in the Winter Palace to store 250 paintings of Rembrandt and Rubens that she bought from Berlin, and called the place where she treasured these things "Tashi, Elmy". The word "Elmy Tashi" comes from French, which means a quiet place. Later, in order to show his power, Catherine II constantly acquired and collected a large number of works of art, and kept his collection here one after another. With the increase of the collection, from 1764 to 1789, Little Hermitage and Great Elmy Tashi were built one after another, becoming veritable private museums. After the death of Katrina II, the owners of the Winter Palace have continuously enriched and improved the museum in this palace, and the collection is increasing day by day. 1852, in order to show off the elegance of these collections to the society, the czar government arranged them and officially opened them to the public. At that time, the whole palace consisted of three floors, about 230 meters long, 140 meters wide and 22 meters high. It is a closed rectangle, covering an area of 90,000 square meters and a building area of more than 46,000 square meters. 19 17 Before February, the Winter Palace was always the palace of the tsar, and was later occupied by the bourgeois provisional government. 1917165438+1On October 7th, the uprising people captured the Winter Palace. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, in order to ensure the safety of the collection, the museum transported 1 18000 pieces to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in the rear for preservation, and the rest of the collection was tightly sealed in the basement of the museum until the end of the war. 1922, the new government allocated the original official residence and the whole winter palace to Tashi, Elmy, and formally established the Tashi Museum in Elmy. Since then, the Tashi Museum in Elmy consists of Winter Palace, Little Winter Palace, Tashi in Old Elmy, Tashi in New Elmy, Winter Palace Reserve and Tashi Theatre in Elmy, which can accommodate more than 500 spectators. It has eight departments, including the Primitive Culture Department, the Ancient Greek and Roman World Department, the Oriental Ethnic Culture Department, the Russian Cultural History Department, the Coin Department, the Western European Art Department, the Science Education Department and the Restoration and Preservation Department, with a collection of more than 2.7 million pieces. The paintings in the collection are world-famous, ranging from the oldest religious paintings in Byzantium to Matisse, Picasso and other impressionist modern paintings, with more than 65,438+05,800 post-impressionist paintings. Among them, two portraits of the Madonna by Italian Leonardo da Vinci, The Madonna and Sancta familia by Raphael, The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt in the Netherlands and famous paintings by Titian, Rubens, Velazquez and Renoir are extremely precious. In addition, there are 6.5438+0.2 million sculptures, more than 600,000 line drawings, more than 6.5438+0.000 coins, medals and commemorative medals and 224,000 practical artworks ... The exhibits of the museum are displayed in more than 400 exhibition halls according to geographical location and time sequence, including special exhibitions such as gold and silver vessels, clothes, gifts, paintings and handicrafts, as well as bedrooms, restaurants, lounges and reception rooms in the Tsarist era. The treasure of the town hall is the "sitting statue of Voltaire". Museums The Oriental Art Museum has 6.5438+0.6 million exhibits since 4000 BC, including thousands of ancient Egyptian cultural relics such as sarcophagus, mummies, reliefs, papyrus documents, sacrificial articles and Coptic textiles, the world's largest Iranian silverware, and cultural relics from countries such as Babylon, Assyria and Turkey. The most striking thing in the museum is the exhibition hall of Peter the Great, which displays the clothes worn by Peter the Great, the medals he wore, the weapons he used and his portraits, some of which were made by himself. In a glass cabinet in the exhibition hall, there is a wax statue of Peter the Great, whose hair is the real hair of Peter the Great himself, which reproduces the majesty of the monarch. There is a wooden pole next to the portrait, and a line is engraved on the top of the wooden pole, which is more than two meters high, indicating that Peter the Great is more than two meters tall. According to reports, Elmy Tashi Museum has a total exhibition line of 30 kilometers, which is known as the longest art museum in the world. It takes more than 4 hours to complete the race at normal speed. If you stay in front of each exhibit for 1 minute, it will take 1 1 year if it is calculated as 8 hours per day.