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Why was teh small hermitage created
A refuge form the winter palace for Catherine II
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How were palaces made to facilitate the liberal social life
With many dining and reception rooms
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What style did Peter the Great favor, placing restrictions on the nobility
Baroque style, construction in stone
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What was Peter the Greats first residence in St. Petersburg
A log cabin on the river neva
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What did Peter envision in St. Petersburg
A westernized city rivaling those of Europe
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Who began contruction on the Winter Palace? What style?
Peter the Great had the palace started between 1711 and 1712 under the Baroque style
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The Baroque style came to be known as what
Petrine Style
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Who had Versailles created
France's Louis XIV, France's Sun King
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Who designed the first Winter Palace
Georg Johann Mattarnovi
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Under which leader did the Winter Palace grow to it's current form
Elizabeth
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Who did Elizabeth call to add to the Palace? Where did he develope his ideas
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, an Italian who developed his ideas under Tsarina Anna
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What was the Palace to demonstrate
The power of the Russian Empire
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What style are the Palaces room's decorated in
Neoclassical and Rococo style
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What did Catherine II want out of the Hermitage
A place that could serve as a refuge, a Hermitage
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Where did the word Hermitage originate in terms of Catherine II
From Elizabeth's descriptions of personal retreats
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What was the function of the Winter Palace?
Large formal state functions
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Where did the idea of teh Hermitage's purpose come from
French slaons of the enlightenment, intellectuals gathered to talk about art and literature
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Who were the two architects of the two parts of the Hermitage
Yury Veltin and Jean Baptiste de le Mothe
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Yury Veltin studied architecture under who
Rastrelli
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Where did Jean Baptiste recieve his training?
Academic training in France, then a period of study in Rome
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What three major pieces did de le Mothe construct in Russia
The Northern Pavilion, Imperial Academy of Arts and the Catholic Church to St. Catherine
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What pleased Catherin about de le Mothe
His neoclassical style
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What is teh Hermitage used for today
Muesum holding a large art collection
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What doers the Hermitage consist of
Two pavilions connected by a hanging garden
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Who designed the Southern Pavilion
Velten
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What features of the Northern Pavilion are reminscent of the Winter Palace
Corinthian Columns of the portico
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What did the Winter Palace look like? What did all three referred buildings look like
The Northern Pavilion looked like the Winter Palace, the Winter Palace looked like Versallies, all three looked like ancient Greek and Roman
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What was Jean-Javques Rousseau's view on a powerful leader
That he needed somewhere to retreat into quiet. That in the simple life the greater truths are found
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Under what circumstances was the Hermitage calm?
When compared to the Winter Palace, but was extravegant even when compared to St. Petersburg's wealthy merchants
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What did ownership of art say about Catherine
Her cosmopolitan nature and her power as a world leader
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