A Sense of Place: A Historian Advocates Conceptual Approaches to Community History
Author(s)
Stromquist, Shelton
Abstract
This chapter offers a brief history of the Hermitage Museum in the fist half of the nineteenth century, under the direction of Tzar Nicholas I, who reigned between 1825 and 1855. Although the Museum had been founded before by Peter and Catherine the Great, it’s since 1852, when, after a fire, it was reconstructed and called “The New Hermitage”, that is properly considered a modern museum of art.
