On December 7, a postage stamp dedicated to the State Hermitage Museum was put into postal circulation in the Treasures of Russian Museums series

New series Treasures of Russian Museums begins with the issue of a stamp dedicated to the State Hermitage Museum.

The State Hermitage Museum is a Russian state art and cultural-historical museum in St. Petersburg, one of the world's largest institutions of its kind. The Picture Gallery of the Imperial Hermitage originated in 1764 as a private collection of Catherine II.

The main museum complex of the Hermitage is located in the historical center of St. Petersburg and includes several interconnected buildings - the Winter Palace, the Spare House of the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Bolshoi (Old) Hermitage, the New Hermitage and the Hermitage Theater. There are 365 rooms open to the public. Besides, the Museum has at its disposal the General Staff building, the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, the Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Center and the Menshikov Palace. Today, the Museum collection comprises about three million artworks and monuments of world culture from the Stone Age to the present century. The collection includes paintings, graphics, sculpture and applied arts, as well as archaeological finds and numismatic material.

The State Hermitage Museum is among the top ten most visited art museums in the world.

The postage stamp shows the Peacock clock (18th century) from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as a maxi-card and an illustrated cover with a postage stamp, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for St. Petersburg inside.


Design Artist: A. Moskovets.
Face value: 31 rubles.
Stamp size: 32.5×65 mm, sheet size: 150×156 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (4×2) stamps.
Quantity: 96 thousand stamps (12 thousand sheets).

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