donderdag 14 maart 2013

Hermitage

Since a few years Amsterdam has a new museum called the "Hermitage" which is linked to the famous Russian Hermitage in St. Petersburg. You can see the big building here behind the bridge, which used to be an eldery home for the poor and later a nursing home. It gives us the opportunity to see many beautiful exhibitions about Russian treasures. We have seen one about the last Tsar Nicolas and now there is a very interesting exhibition about Tsar Peter the Great (1672-1725).

Tsar Peter the Great became a tsar when he was 17 years old and was an unconvential, inspired and inquisitive man who wanted to modernize Russia. He was an enthusiastic traveller who made two visits to Western Europe, including the Dutch Republic. It was the city Amsterdam, in particular, that insprired him to found his new capital St. Petersburg. He even lived here for quite some time to learn for carpenter and how to built boats! I saw all kind of instruments he had used and made. 


Hubby SC of sccollections was inspired by Peter the Great and tried his costume!

10 opmerkingen:

  1. Ha Ha...Tell SC the outfit looks great on him!

    I missed the museum when I was there and am sorry that I did.

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  2. I saw a program once that shoed while many Russians were so poor, queuing for food etc there were many who were so rich with many treasures, it would be interesting to see dome of them here Marianne,

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  3. Not that I didn't find the history interesting but I am curious as to the two floating mats of sticks and brush alongside the boat. Know what they are for?

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  4. Ditto the "floating mats of sticks and brush". Inquiring minds, like the Tsar', want to know. :-)

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  5. Wonderful to be able to see objects from the Hermitage, which os am amazing museum.

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  6. History can be very fascinating. Most people miss it. We also have a lot of bias and think of the Russians as very backward.

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  7. Revrunner,
    Those floating mats are floating gardens. In summer there grow all kinds of plants on. Now they look a bit ugly because of the cold wintertime.

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  8. cool outfit!
    and i didnt know that about the russian tsar, now i want to goto russia....

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  9. The russian Tsars were an interesting lot. Hubby looks too jovial to be a russian tsar.

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