RUSSIAN MUSEUM, Russian Museum

Hi, my name’s Jill, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the State Russian Museum.

The State Russian Museum is undoubtedly the best place to explore the delights of Russian art.  It is divided into five buildings, but the main collections are in the Mikhailovsky Palace and in the adjacent Benois Wing.

If you have time, however, I suggest you buy a ticket to visit the other locations, all of them in the city center, to admire the interiors of these beautiful buildings: the Marble Palace, the Stroganov Palace, the most sumptuous of them all, and Mikhailovsky Castle.

The main building of the museum, Mikhailovsky Palace, was built between 1819 and 1825 by the Neapolitan architect Carlo Rossi as a residence for the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich Romanov, brother of Tsar Alexander I....