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...great is Soviet Russia's storehouse of modern art, still largely hidden away in the storerooms of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum? Answer last week from a man with firsthand knowledge: "The Hermitage has the greatest collection of Picassos before 1914, and the greatest collection of Matisses anywhere. Its Gauguin collection is by far the greatest in the world. In Cézannes, it is second among institutional collections only to the Barnes collection in Merion, Pa. And it has three first-rate Rousseaus. The Van Goghs are excellent. From the period of say 1885 to 1914, its pictures...
This considered opinion came from no Soviet pressagent, but from Alfred Barr Jr., director of collections of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, who took advantage of last spring's cultural thaw to go to Leningrad for the Hermitage's first big display of French painting. Beyond the show, Barr was permitted to see an astonishing cache of modern art stored away out of sight...
...Soviet Union yesterday expelled two more U.S. military attaches, accusing them of taking pictures of "a building of defense significance." The action followed a Leningrad incident in which both men were attacked, the U.S. Embassy said. The Soviet move came close on the heels of yesterday's elaborately staged and televised news conference at the Soviet Foreign Ministry at which press chief L.F. Ilyichep charged the United States with waging a secret war on Russia through a massive espionage campaign...
...They Hang Everything." During World War II, while Nazi armies besieged Leningrad, Soviet technicians huddled in bomb shelters deep beneath the Hermitage, patiently picked away at the staggering task of cataloguing the museum's 2,000,000 objects. The job is still going on. Today the collection sprawls through 322 halls and galleries that stretch some 15 miles. Strangely, the museum has no Russian paintings, which are housed in other Leningrad museums. But three of its six departments display only Russian objects ranging from Stone-Age relics to 20th century silverware. Under heavy guard in a basement vault...
...house her haul. Catherine built a series of apartments adjoining Leningrad's baroque Winter Palace, set up a hanging garden filled with orange trees (that were hustled inside for the winter), and coyly nicknamed the place her "little hermitage." When the revolution came in 1917, the Hermitage was squarely in the middle. For four turbulent months Kerensky's provisional government holed up in the adjoining Winter Palace. After gaining control, the Bolsheviks confiscated the top private art collections in the country, turned the Winter Palace into a massive, 1,000-room art gallery and office building, and opened...