Gazprom: Permanent exhibition on Peter I era opens at Hermitage Museum with support from Gazprom

Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director General of the State Hermitage Museum, opened today in St. Petersburg the Peter the Great Gallery, the first part of the permanent exhibition entitled “Russian Culture in the First Half of the 18th Century.”

The exhibition is timed to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great. It will be displayed in eleven halls of the courtyard enfilade of the Winter Palace. The exhibition is centered on the arts, culture and history of Russia in the era of Peter I and his daughter, Empress Elizabeth, who followed in the footsteps of the first Russian Emperor. Gazprom is the general sponsor of the project.