Panorama State Hermitage. Virtual Tour State Hermitage

Perhaps there is no museum in Russia, more famous and revered in the specialist environment than the Hermitage. Yes, and near ordinary tourists, like us, he enjoys well-deserved demand, and therefore was the first place we visited, arriving in St. Petersburg. In our country there are many first-class museums, but Hermitage, undoubtedly, is the largest meeting of artistic values \u200b\u200bnot only with us, but also seems to be around the world. His majestic halls and spacious storage concluded more three million Exhibits collected over the period of two and a century.

Despite this fact, it is not the most visited museum in the world, but is only around the region of the tenth place in the overall rating of museums. I think that such a circumstance is due to the fact that the museum is located in Russia, the country is not the most popular for tourism, as practice shows. If the museum was stood in London or Paris, then I would still think about anyone ... :) Well, while Louvre and the British Museum occupy the first two places in the number of visitors per year.

02. To get to the museum I had to defend a decent line. I am glad that there is such a demand for art in the country.

I was not in British MuseumBut was in the Louvre. I will be honest, I liked the Hermitage more. And it's not in patriotism, but that even if you remove all exhibits from our museum, then it remains an excellent palace that is worth a separate visit. While the Louvre, as it seemed to me, has long lost the flavor and luxury of palace interiors.

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09. Georgievsky big throat hall.

As for the exhibits and collections, then, like Louvre before, Hermitage suppressed me, forcing me to think about the guise of life and imperfection human memory. Three million exhibits !!! 22 kilometers of corridors! Such a volume is impossible to perceive holistically and remember. You can come to St. Petersburg and years to study the collections of this incredible museum. After an excursion for the Hermitage, I, oddly enough, felt a little depressed: the head was buzzing from the volume of new knowledge and impressions, the memory tried to assimilate them, and I, once again, realized my cultural illiteracy. Despite the fact that a detailed examination of the main exposition is required for a person not one month, I stayed at the museum about four hours. Then the "overload" came and I simply lost the opportunity to acutely perceive the charm of the masterpieces around me. Something, I naturally photographed. Specially did not take pictures of the most famous canvases Self famous masters, instead, photographed what I met for the first time.

When it comes to sculpture, I for some reason I have to leave for antiquity. I like to represent how the Greek masters worked, for the first time in the history of mankind, creating such realistic and affecting their complexity. It is not surprising that such an outstanding skill gave rise to the myth about Pygmalion.

12. Hercules - "Novodel" of the XVIII century.

13. Aphrodite Tavrichesky

14. Dionysis

A separate item for me is always the paintings in the style of "Vertice", which is so close to my beloved Travel photos. More often the paintings of this genre touches me.

16. Bernardo Bellotto. "View of the Pier from the Right Bank of Elba."

17. Bernardo Bellotto. "Dresden city market."

You can endlessly walk through the halls and corridors of the Palace-Museum, constantly surprised and admiring ...

19. And sometimes with such colossal masterpieces as Kolyvanovskaya Vase, the largest in the world, sharpened and monolith of green jasper, weighing more than 19 tons!

I deliberately made my essay surface and did not write unfolded sheets long textsAs I like to do usually. Just the Hermitage such an object that in the Russian-speaking literature it was described many times and outstanding specialists, compete with which a dilettant as I am just ridiculous. Who wants - can easily find full and comprehensive information about this museum on the network. Well, I just shared my walk, not assuming to do virtual excursion As part of this post. It remains only to envy the inhabitants of St. Petersburg, who have a frequent opportunity to visit this treasury of human creativity.

Once it was a very small museum in the Winter Palace, created by Catherine II exclusively for himself beloved and palace nobility. Such a cultural survey for the formation of the sophisticated taste of favorites. And only after February 17th, the Hermitage rushed to today's sizes and became the main thing in this ensemble of buildings between Palace Square and palace embankment. And the people went into it with a solid stream, heard about indecent treasures Museum.

And they really have in it. By the sizes of their funds, Hermitage stands in one row with the most outstanding museums of the world - about three million works of art and cultural monuments. Starting with a small collection of Dutch and Flemish painters, the Hermitage has become the largest storage of painting and sculpture, jewelry and applied art, numismatics and weapons collections ...

Of course, neither forces, nor the time to explore all this, having arrived in Peter for the weekend, no one will have. Hermitage for those who know the sense that it would like to find and see. And for "simple mortals" there are different thematic excursions. Yes, and just run through the halls, raise the mysterious atmosphere high artNo one will hurt anyone.

But I would advise you to go to it, prepared. To read something in advance, decompose the main schools and directions in the head, remember some authors ... will still be useful to wander through the virtual ermita on his official website. There is even such interesting functionAs the creation of your own collection of works, which can then be tried to find in countless halls and admire the first. And only if, perhaps, the Hermitage will also drop to you, will become "Frank" and will lead you by the hand in magic world art. And Peter in your presentation will acquire the very aura of the "cultural capital", which you heard many times, but could not understand where she ...

Objectives:

• introduce students with works by the culture and art of large and small nations;
• bring up a sense of excellent, a sense of pride in his country, for compatriots;
• promoting the development of the creative forces of schoolchildren, to aim for independent acquisition of knowledge about Russian culture and art.

Equipment:

1. On the board was written epigraph: "I entered the Hermitage, as in the vault of human genius. In the Hermitage, I was for the first time, another young man, I felt happiness to be a man. And I realized how a person can be great and good ... " K. POUST.
2. Slides.
3. Reproduction of paintings.
4. Musical accompaniment.

Class hour.

1. introduction Teacher.

Dear guys, today we will accomplish an amazing journey into one of the largest museums of Russia - Hermitage.

Translated from the ancient Greek Museum, or Museyon, means "Temple of Muses." In honor of nine Muses, beautiful and ever-young companions of God Apollo - a patron of arts, the ancient Greeks created their Museyon, in which you could see magnificent marble statues, elegant works of visual and jewelry art. Visiting them, people admire the amazing creations of the famous masters and artists presented there. The creators of museums carefully retain all this magnificence not only for contemporaries, but also for their descendants. Nowadays, museums are cultural and historical centers in which all valuable was collected, which was created by humanity for the centuries-old history. The museum is called the historical memory of the people.

2. Historical excursion.

LeadingI.: In the center of St. Petersburg, on the left bank of the Neva River, there is Hermitage - the largest museum of the history of world culture.

Hermitage is amazing worldFull wonders.

Passage sophisticated way From the closed palace assembly to one of the largest museums, he stores about two million seven hundred thousand monuments of culture and works of art, which covers the colossal historical period from primitive society to the present day.

The museum occupies five buildings, more than three hundred and fifty halls are reserved under the exposition.

Truly the Hermitage "is extensive and unawrs, like our country ... His endless Anflades flow as Russian rivers, and his halls spread as immense plains and the sea."

Among the museums of the world there are only few such that could argue with the Hermitage and the variety of their collections. The treasures collected here are familiar with the work of many dozen countries and the peoples of the East and the West.

Hermitage carefully retains world artistic values \u200b\u200bin his walls, showing respect for the millennial achievements of culture and art of large and small peoples, makes it the subject of national pride.

It is difficult to overestimate the value of the Hermitage for the formation of a human person in our days, when its monuments have become a publicly available, nationwide treasure.

LeadingII.: Of all historical events, whose witness became Hermitage, are not comparable to those who have been truly world meaning There were the days of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The memory of the storming of the Winter Palace keep his walls and many halls.

The memorial plane marked the staircase of the entrance coming into the palace area. Now she is called October. Mainly on it, on the night of October 25, October 26, 1917, the detachments of the Red Guards and the revolutionary parts of the army and the fleet, storming the palace rushed. Memorial board marked and small dining room. On the white marble is inscribed: "In this room on the night of October 25-26 (November 7-8), 1917, Krasnogvardeys, soldiers and sailors, who told the Winter Palace, arrested the counter-revolutionary bourgeois temporary government."

Special attention deserves the fact that due to the extremely high consciousness of the revolutionary masses the palace remained unharmed.

LeadingIII: Later, a significant period in the history of the Hermitage appeared, years were the Great Patriotic War And the blockade of Leningrad. Forces of the Museum, with the help of numerous Leningradians, artists, students of the collection in the shortest possible time were prepared for evacuation. Salvation of the greatest values \u200b\u200bwas paid to the special attention of the government of the country.

In July 1941, the two echelons in the deep rear (Sverdlovsk) were exported by 11,18,000 exhibits under the supervision of researchers. The remaining exhibits, together with the custodial museums received to be stored in the Hermitage of other museums, were covered under strong codes. Only such giants as the statue of Jupiter, the Kolyvan Vase and other monuments, the carrying of which threatened their safety threatened. In the empty halls - barrels with water, piles of sand and various firefire inventory and orphaned showcases and frames, with labels specially left on them. In exceptionally severe conditions, the blockade, under fire and bombings, which caused great damage to the museum, the day of the day of the Hermitage was happening after day. On October 10, 1945, the collections returned from evacuation, and on November 4 of the same year, a solemn public viewing of the first newly open sixty nine rooms took place. On November 8, 1945, Hermitage resumed his regular activities.

LeadingIV: Nowadays, Hermitage visits about three and a half million people annually.

In this (2010) Hermitage marks 246 years. The museum's foundation date is considered to be 1764, when a large batch of paintings acquired Catherine II, from the Berlin merchant, arrived in St. Petersburg. This collection laid the beginning of the systematic gathering of artistic values, but it was far from the first of the already existed at the time in Russia and later partially entered the Hermitage. Nowadays, a lot of first-class art monuments acquired in Petrovsky are kept in the museum. To their number, first of all, it is necessary to attribute the world-famous "Siberian collection of Peter I".

If the facades of the Winter Palace and other Hermitage Buildings mainly retained their original appearance, then with the interiors the situation is different. For two hundred years, the purpose of many of them has repeatedly changed, which entailed changes in the interior decoration. The most difficult turned out to be the architectural fate of the Winter Palace, the most old of the buildings held by the Hermitage. December 17 - 19, 1837, a terrible fire for three days destroyed the whole of the huge palace, from which only the burnt esks remained. Already on December 29, 1837, a special commission for the restoration of the palace was created. Colossal in terms of work was carried out in an exclusively short time and were completed in less than two years - just! At the same time, 8 thousand people were employed for construction. Worked day and night.

3 . Coloring trip to the Hermitage.

GuideI.: Entering the museum from the Neva through the main entrance of the Winter Palace to the fullest, you feel the baroque nature of the organization of space.

Gallery, resting on powerful pillars, decorated with columns, directs the head of the front staircase<Слайд 1>(The presentation can be asked by the author of the article). From the first march platform, there are two sleeves, forcing the viewer to turn and see the magnificence of this staircase, which occupies almost the entire height of the palace, the infinite variety of her decor - mirrors, statues, intricate gilded stucco. On the turn to the top platform, again connecting stair marches, attention attracted huge columns. The plander with the image of the Gods of Olympus in the clouds takes a glance. From the main staircase, the Nevsky and Big Anfilacies are diverged from the right angle.

Feldmarshal Hall<Слайд 2>The beginning of great enfilad seems to be solemnly frozen in his greatst. In the architectural solution reigns logicality and clarity. Porticists located in the center of the hall pointing the path from the main staircase to the next Petrovsky hall. Decorative wealth gives highly rendered eaves with a balcony on it, and three bronze chandeliers: large, with a diameter of 2.66m and two small two-meter.

Next to him Petrovsky, or a small throne room<Слайд 3>. Dedicated to Peter I, he at the same time was intended for small techniques and was decorated with a special luxury. Walls are covered with screams, with time, a darkened velvet embroidered with silver. A continuous embossed gilded ornament of frieze includes crowns, sea attributes and wreaths. The arch is painted by images of Russian coat of arms, decreasing as it approaches the top of the arch. The main element in the design of the hall is a large niche with a rounded arch. It has a silver gilded throne chair in it. By the throne - a picture depicting Peter I with the goddess of Minerva.

GuideII.: Neighboring with Petrovsky Herbal Hall<Слайд 4> invariably affects soy majesticity. The colossal hall in a thousand square meters, does not suppress its depth. Combination white color Gold makes it particularly elegant and solemn. On the white walls of the hall pairs are located gilded columns and pilasters supporting the balcony with a gilded stucco ornament. The sculptural groups of warriors placed on the end walls with the coat of arms of the Russian provinces on the trees determine the name of the hall - the coat of arms. Shields with coat of arms are also strengthened on numerous chandeliers adorning the hall. In 1942, an explosion of the fascist projectile was very damaged by the hall. By November 7, 1946, it was completely restored.

One of the most famous interiors of the Winter Palace is the Gallery of 1812<Слайд 5>. Its value as a monument to Russian glory perfectly determined A. S. Pushkin in the famous poem "commander".

The Russian king has a chamber in the pa talkings:
She is not gold, not a velvet rich;
Not in it, the grain diamond is stored under the glass;
But from top to bottom, full length, circle
His brush is free and broad,
She painted the artist quickly.
There is no rural nymph, nor virgin madonne,
No dance, nor hunt, - and all raincoats, yes swords,
Yes, faces full of militant courage.
The crowd of a close artist placed
Here are the chiefs of the people's forces,
Coated glorious wonderful campaign
And the eternal memory of the twelfth year.

On the walls of the gallery in simple gilded frames 332 portraits of the generals, participants of the Patriotic War of 1812 were posted. Among images, the central place is held large, in growth, portraits of famous Feldmarshalov M. I. Kutuzov and M. B. Barclay de Tolly. Around the portraits of their neighbor associates of Bagration, Yermolov and others. The fire of 1837 did not spare the gallery, but the portraits were saved and after the gallery restoring the architect Stasov returned to their places. The Military Gallery is a kind of monument to the heroic military past of the Russian people.

GuideIII: Georgiev or big throat hall<Слайд 6> It is possible without exaggeration to be called one of the most advanced interiors of the Winter Palace. The sun-floated twinsweight hall, sparkling a white marble, shaped gilded bronze, conquers solemn magnifier corresponding to its intended purpose. The hall covers an area of \u200b\u200b800 square meters. M. Cast ornament of gilded bronze filled the monumental ceiling monumental caissons, the patterns of which are repeated in a unique parquet scored from 16 rare wood species. Bronze chandeliers and marble bas-relief are also included in the overall rhythm, depicting the dahlia victorious, mounted in the wall above the throne place.

Malachite Hall<Слайд 7> According to its unique. But the malachite hall can be called unique, thanks to the skillful use of a truly fabulous beauty of the stone in his finish, not accidentally entered the Ural legends. The use of such a valuable stone for the decoration of the Big Hall was associated with the discovery in the 1830s in the Urals of the huge deposits of Malachite. Surprisingly efficiently and elegantly bold contrast combination of various shades of green stone with the gilding ceilings, doors, as well as with raspberry color of the furniture and curtains on the background of the white grades. Nowadays, a variety of Malachite products are exhibited in the hall - Kandelabra, lamps, vases and others, performed mainly in the first half of the XIX century.

GuideIV: Concert hall<Слайд 8> Created at the end of the XVIII century on the site of one of the five parade orders, built by F. Rastrelli. He was intended for concerts, from where his name takes place. The walls of the hall are lined with a white kitty. The figures of ancient music and goddesses placed on the eaves and as if continuing columns were created by the sculptor I. Herman instead of the burnt. Artistic products from silver work of Russian masters of the XVII - XX centuries are exhibited in the hall. The monumental silver tomb of Alexander Nevsky affects.

Pavilion Hall<Слайд 9> - One of the most elegant in the Hermitage. It created a spacious bright bunk interior, decorated with arcades, columns, decorative sculpture of "tears fountains" and a mosaic floor. A peculiar composition of the hall, the whiteness of its finishes in combination with a gilded background and an abundance of sparkling crystal chandeliers enhance the brightness of the interior. Russian and Italian mosaic tables and watches "Peacock" are exhibited in the hall, the work of the English master.

GuideV.: The art gallery of the Hermitage is especially important, which began in 1764. To give a complete picture of the wealth of the art gallery of the Hermitage, of course, it is impossible. In the selection of works, we sought to include a number of alays with glorious masterpieces, but those outstanding in artistic attitudes, most vividly characterizing the art of individual countries.

Revival - the epoch characteristic of the full change of human consciousness, "gave rise to, according to Engels, - Titans for the strength of thought, passion." One of the titans was Leonardo da Vinci. It is impossible to speak about him only as a painting. He was simultaneously a mechanic, architect, sculptor, chemist, astronomer, etc. Picturesque work Leonardo, reached us very little. "Madonna Benois" or "Madonna with a flower". The picture was discovered in Russia, in Astrakhan. A local merchant, not knowing that he acquires, bought a picture on the sale of the property of the Italian wandering musician. Then she inherited the wife of a large architect Benua, who sold it in 1914 to Hermitage. The name of Benua and remained behind the picture. In contrast to Doyonardovskaya church tradition, it's rather not Madonna, but a young mother playing with his son and in the game the same joy as a child.

When Rafael wrote "Madonna Concreate", he was about 17 years old. The main feature of the picture is the permeating picture of the feeling of lyrics. It is present in the very form of Madonna and in a naive landscape, gently spreading her back. In nature, spring reigns. Light greens are covered with low hills, on the trees just begin to bloom the leaves. The main feature of Madonna is pensive clarity, around her the same mood. By choosing a form for your work a circle, Rafael comply with its composition accordingly. It is all expressed in soft rounded lines: Madonna's shoulder, prone head, second shoulder. Her figure is put strictly in the center. The baby's body is located under the same tilt as his mother's head. This is an attempt to develop the geometric constructions of the composition.

About Georgeon's biography, we know extremely few. It is known that he spent most of his life in Venice. He was at the same time an artist, a musician, a poet. Such a variety of gifts affected his picturesque work: he is one of the few artists of the Renaissance, in whose work is felt attempting to pass the mood. "Judith" - one of his most remarkable works - depicts an excellent European girl who saved his people from the attacks of enemies. She seduced Oloferna, the leader of the army, precipitated her native cityAnd when he fell asleep, cut off his head. The image of Yudithi is very complex. It is at the same time majestic and modest. It feels the pride of the winner and sadness caused by the perfect act. Driving the leg of Ooloferna depicted Judith Georgeon. The whole pose is emphasized, feminine, while the hand firmly squeezes the sword. The background for Yudifi is a multi-speaking landscape with a distant horizon. To the right of it are depicted two trees: mighty oak and thin, trembling under the wind, a tree. Probably this comparison by the female weakness of Judith with the invincibility of her opponent.

"Return Prodigal Son."- This is the last major picture of Rembrandt, his swan song. He created her without recovering from the fatal death losses of his son and a beloved woman. Naturally, the theme of the parent grief was close to him. The artist chose the topic from the Gospel. In one of the paraders, the son referred to the sake of the father for fun and carefree. Frames a number of adversity, the young man returned to the father's house. Old man father, forgetting his misfortune and loneliness, happily throws him to a meeting. Rembrandt depicts the father an old, weak, semi-blind. He seeks to see the Son, but can not. His face is full of suffering and joy. Hands carefully and lovingly feeling, carefully attracting to themselves, a cranked man. The view of the latter is especially pity: the head is covered with a root, the affected legs drove and swollen, clothing rags falling from the shoulders. His face is almost not visible. He all froze at the feet of his father, giving a feeling of caress. No more convincing and brighter images are not even in the work of Rembrandt itself. With a meeting of the Father and Son there are witnesses, however, they are so secondary that they still stop attention. Rembrandt gives his picture last lesson Love to man, understanding him and forgiveness of his weaknesses.

Nikola Poussin is the largest French artist of the XVII century. Being very educated person, he found "High Examples" everywhere, which should have taken the audience of his paintings, or heroic featswhich they might imitate. Usually Pussen, used for its works plots associated with civil vality, self-sacrifice for the sake of their people or their homeland. One of the best works of Pussen is "Tancred and Hermine". Loving Knight Tancred Hermine finds him seriously wounded in a duel with a maw. Herminia, from the point of view of the people of the XVI century, brings his beloved the greatest sacrifice, she cuts his hair to dress his hair with a magical force. The artist concentrates all the attention of the viewer on his heroes, concluding them into a circle, torn by the bodies of horses. Herminia rushes to Tancred. Hair cuts off on running. The argence heer fed to the tancreder seems to be framed.

The art of Titian - the largest painter of the Venetian school - is filled with huge vital energy. "Saint Sebastian" is one of the most characteristic pictures of Late Titian. According to Legend, Sebastian was a Roman legionnaire, executed for the commitment of Christianity. Titian depicts the hero: strong, high; A muscular man suffers severely, but tolerates the torment proudly, hardly calmly. The spectator seems to physically feel how huge arrows believes, but Sebastian takes out the torment, he is not broken, he stands, straightening, his body is fine, as an athlete body, only in the view of the eye raised to the sky, you can read what strength is Sebastian His proud excerpt. Titian writes in just three paints: black, white and red, creating a complex picturesque organism with their help. The body of the hero is distinguished from the colorful mass and at the same time it is connected with it, just as its image belongs to the world of suffering and darkness, and is opposed to him.

4. Final word Teacher.

So, we have done an amazing journey to the past with you, joined the artistic history of St. Petersburg, they felt themselves to be invalid to the work of great architects. Each of you felt like a worthy heir of our spiritual values.

State Hermitage is one of the largest and most significant artistic and cultural and historical museums of Russia and the world. Located in St. Petersburg. The museum has its own history from the collections of works of art, which in private Russian Empress Catherine II. Initially, this collection was placed in a special palace filtiel - a small Hermitage (from Fr. Ermitage - a place of privacy, cullee, hermitching, pickup), from where he fixed common name The future museum. In 1852, the imperial Hermitage had been formed from the very resulting collections and is open to visiting the public. Modern State Hermitage It is a complex museum complex. The main exposure part of the museum is five buildings located along the Neva River Embankment in the center of St. Petersburg, the main of which is considered to be the Winter Palace. The museum collection includes about three million works of art and monuments of world culture, starting from the Stone Age to our century. State Hermitage is included in the first twenty of the most visited artistic museums World.

Collection of Catherine Great

Hermitage emerged in 1764 as a private assembly of Catherine II, after she was transferred from Berlin 317 valuable paintings (according to other data there were only 225) a total cost of 183 thousand talers from private collection Painting Johanna Ernst Gotzkowski (Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, 1710-1775), in the score of his debt, by Vladimir Sergeevich Dolgorukov. Among them were a canvas of such masters like Dirk Van Bauren, Hendrik Van Balulen, Rembrandt Wang Rhine, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Yordans, Antonis Wang Dyake, Hendrik Golcyus, France Hals, Yang Walls, Gerrit Wang Hontshorst and other works, mostly Dutch Falund school first half XVII century. Of the 228 paintingsmen transmitted to Russia in 1764, at least 96 were preserved in the Hermitage today. At first, most paintings were located in the secluded apartments of the Palace (now the Small Hermitage). Subsequently, the apartments received the name "Hermitage". In 1769, a rich collection of the Saxon Minister of Count Bruvea was acquired in Dresden for the Hermitage, who had about 600 paintings, including Titian's landscape "Fiashide in Egypt", types of Dresden and Pirts of Brush Bellotto, etc. The most important role for the Hermitage played in 1772 Catherine in Paris Collection of Baron Crose Painting. This meeting largely predetermined "face" picture gallery. Pictures of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch masters of the XVI-XVIII century prevailed. Among them - " Holy Family"Raphael, Judith, Judith," Dana "Titian, Rembrandt's paintings, Rubens, Wang Dequean, Jambattist Pittoni, Poussa, landscapes of Claude Lorrene and Watto's work. A collection of painting of the British Prime Minister Walpola, acquired in 1779, added a number of Lambrandt's masterpieces (among them "Abraham's sacrifice" and "disjoint Amana") and a group of portraits of Brush Wang Dequee. ...

13:00 — REGNUM. Today, December 12, in the St. Petersburg Publishing House "Arca" comes the first museum comic "Travel by Hermitage. Queen Tulipov " Varvara Tomato and Darya Agapova. The story in an unusual form shows the world of art with the help of works presented in the Northern Capital Museum.

The curator of the project was the director of the publishing house "Bumkniga" Dmitry Yakovlev:

"The desire to see the Russian comic about the museum has appeared after I saw the drawing stories that Louvre publishes together with Futuropolis publishing house. It was about eight years ago. We even contacted the Louis and offered them to hold an exhibition in St. Petersburg. But then, unfortunately, I did not find a response in our museums. About three years ago, we discussed this idea with Tomato barbara, and she decided to take up the project. In parallel, I offered it to the "Arka" publishing house, which is the partner of the "Hermitage". They liked the idea, and the work began. The book turned out gorgeous, and I really hope to see the continuation. "

The main characters of the hand drawn story were schoolchildren Tasya and Vanya, who are accidentally found in the Hermitage and begin to discover the works of art, tolerating in time and space.

"The idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a comic about adventures in the Hermitage appeared in the" Arch "publishing house for a long time, but only when a strong team has developed - the artist Varvara Tomato, with her tender graphics manner, which allows you to work carefully with the Hermitage collection, a children's specialist museum programs Daria Agapova and Dima Yakovlev, who knows about the comics almost everything - our dreams became a reality and embodied in exciting and very touching historywho came up with Barbara and Daria, - tells Polina Ermakova, chief Editor Publishing house "Arka"."I am sure that this book will appeal to lovers of comics, and museum regulars, and those who are still to open the world of comics, and most importantly - the extraordinary world of the Hermitage."

The comic is made by colored pencils and watercolor. Such a technique adds stories of some "childishness" and makes it closer to the main characters. At the same time, a detailed schedule allows the reader to plunge into the atmosphere of the Hermitage and take a fresh look at the works of art known to the world.

To learn more about the comics and work on it, the correspondent IA REGNUM. He talked with the authors of the hand drawn story by Barbara Tomato and Darya Agapova.

: How did your cooperation happen?

Varvara: This book is my first work experience in collaboration. With Dasha Agapova, we are familiar for a long time. She had repeatedly invited me to participate in its museum projects as an artist and designer, we together did a children's program for the exhibition about Peter I in Maneza, Museum Turnures for the Gatchina Palace. In this case, I invited Dasha to work on this book together. We discussed the plot, text, book structure, graphic development of history, individual personnel.

: What advantages and cons will you allocate in working together?

Varvara: Work together much easier, faster solved controversial questionsDoubts are dispelled. Everyone has priorities. In some questions I completely trust Dasha. But at the same time, everything can be discussed, thinking. On any idea, the co-author can see a little from the side, which is very important in the work. Before that, my husband Eldar has always been such an assistant.

: How long have you worked on a hand drawn story? Did any difficulties arise?

Varvara: When we agreed with the Publishing House "Arka" about the book, I was given a special "unlimited" pass to the museum. For half a year I collected the material and wrote three stories. But they did not fit into the comic formats. I wanted to tell me very detailed. How to fit everything? Then I asked Dasha to read the text. She immediately gave a lot selo SovietsAnd it became clear how to get out of that "rolled" important and interesting things under which I was stuck. I offered Dasha to become co-author, and we began to work on the text together. Then I was distracted by illustrations for the books of the rune of BelSvik "Prododursen" - for 8 months I plunged "In the Current Country". And after two and a half years, the book about Hermitage came out of the printing house.

: How did you choose certain works of art in order to transfer them to the pages of your comic book?

Daria: I would say that rather they chose us. The heroes of the book are very different tempers And they look differently - Tasu is more interested in the details, textures, expressions of persons, and Vanya - a meticulous young man, just looking at the smartphone immediately, it turns out that, where and when. The difference is affected and in age and in temperaments. We tried to reconstruct the method of thought of the heroes of our story: as Tasu "lead" curiosity and wandering look, and Vanya - an inquisitive mind and research interest, in which they help each other how they intersect. From this logic, the choice of works was born, and we didn't have enough Hermitage, we had to include some things from other museums of the world, which arose on the screen of the vanine phone. So there was a travel map in the light at the end of the book.

: What audience is the hand drawn story oriented?

Daria: It would be possible to say that this is a story for the peers of the heroes of the book, that is, for younger adolescents, 10-13 years old who can identify themselves with Tassey and Vanya. But, it seems to me, to an even greater degree of a book for parents, because it gives you the opportunity to carefully look at how the child perceives the world, what is he, what is important for him. Parents often want from the Museum of direct benefit - learned something, remembered something, and we wanted to show that with a child who perceive art, and more important things, deeper things.

: What is most memorable in your work on the book?

Daria: For me it was an experience of unusually comfortable cooperation. When Varya returned to me in the form of a picture, I constantly had a feeling that I received in an award it is not clear for what the opportunity to attend when the miracle is happened, it sounds sentimentally, but it is really an amazing process when words are embodied in images and at the same time that new meaning It is born, unforeseen in advance.

: Do you plan to continue the history of the Hermitage or create a similar comic about other museums of St. Petersburg?

Varvara : Now we edit the text of the second story, the action of which also occurs in the Hermitage, in the halls of Japan. But we are interested in walking on other museums, and maybe wander through the streets of the city.