Historical and modern photos of Russia, Europe and St. Petersburg, tourist & historical places. Travel stories. - Part 32

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The art and culture of Byzantium (5th-15th centuries)

The art and culture of Byzantium (5th-15th centuries)

3 мая 2007 — Culture of the peoples of the east

Byzantium grew up as a result of the division of the Roman Empire during the fourth century A.D. into Western and Eastern Empires, the latter receiving the name of Byzantium. The centuries-old history of this state, which played so important a part in the shaping of European culture, came to an end in 1453 when the decaying feudal empire of the Palaeologus dynasty was conquered by the Turks.

The art and culture of Babylon, Assyria and neighbouring countries (4,000 B.C.- 3rd century A.D.)

The art and culture of Babylon, Assyria and neighbouring countries (4,000 B.C.- 3rd century A.D.)

3 мая 2007 — Culture of the peoples of the east

In the very distant past, on the territory of present-day Iraq, there developed, blossomed and finally declined the ancient cultures, successively replacing each other, of states which at one time wielded considerable power – Sumer, Akkadia, Babylon and Assyria.

The art and culture of Egypt (4,000 B.C.- 6th century A.D.)

The art and culture of Egypt (4,000 B.C.- 6th century A.D.)

3 мая 2007 — Culture of the peoples of the east — One response

The relics of the ancient period of Egyptian culture in the museum include some Palaeolithic chisels of the fifth millennium B.C., and also earthenware vessels, flint tools and stone palettes for triturating paint dating back to the fourth millennium B. C.

The art and culture of the peoples of the caucasus (1,100 B.C. – 19th century)

The art and culture of the peoples of the caucasus (1,100 B.C. – 19th century)

3 мая 2007 — Culture of the peoples of the east

The items displayed in room 55 confirm the fact that the tribes of Transcaucasia, whose basic occupation was cattle-breeding and to some extent farming, underwent a period (between the eleventh and seventh centuries B.C.) in which the primitive system of communal relations broke up.

The art and culture of the peoples of central asia (4,000 B.C. – early 20th century)

The art and culture of the peoples of central asia (4,000 B.C. – early 20th century)

3 мая 2007 — Culture of the peoples of the east

The exhibitions presents the most important stages in the artistic and historical past of the Tadjik, Uzbek, Turkmen, Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics.

The department of the art and culture of the peoples of the east

3 мая 2007 — Culture of the peoples of the east

Preserved in the Hermitage are more than one hundred and forty thousand items pertaining to the culture and art of the various peoples of the East. This Eastern department was set up in 1920 upon the initiative of the distinguished Soviet scholar and orientalist J. Orbeli.

The department of Prehistoric culture

The department of Prehistoric culture

3 мая 2007 — Prehistoric culture

The department of prehistoric culture was created in 1931 upon the basis of the vast amount of material collected by Soviet archaeologists, supplemented by groups of relics of the past (the Siberian collection, the Scythian antiquities, etc.) preserved in the Hermitage before the October Revolution.

Russian semi-precious stoneware

3 мая 2007 — Russian Culture

The Hermitage is rightly called the treasure house of Russian semi-precious stone. Numerous vases, bowls, candelabra and table-tops cut out of semi-precious stones from the Urals and Altai, and now housed in the museum, were created in the nineteenth century in the lapidary works of Peterhof, Kolyvan and Ekaterinburg.

Russian culture (1800-60)

Russian culture (1800-60)

3 мая 2007 — Russian Culture

The first three rooms contain exhibits which give a general picture of the social history of Russia in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. There are portraits of the representatives of the main social classes of the Russian state, examples of costumes of that period, and also prints showing towns and villages.

Russian culture (1740-1800)

Russian culture (1740-1800)

3 мая 2007 — Russian Culture

Room 163 contains material devoted to the work and activities of Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765). As a result of many experiments.