Hermitage Museum Cats Website
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Hermitage museum cats website. Army of cats at the Hermitage Museum. The cats of the Hermitage are according to their director Mikhail Piotrovski an important part of the life of the museum and one of its living legends. The Hermitage hosts an annual party for the cats and has a website where locals.
Photo is taken from the website. The cats now numbering about 70 live in the Hermitage since its foundation in 1764 to protect the mice from the numerous works of art that house the galleries of the gallery. There have been cats in the Hermitage museum ever since the days of the Elizabeth Petrovna.
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A frenchman has left cash to 50 cats who stay in russias hermitage museum. In 1745 Peter the Greats daughter Empress Elisabeth issued a decree ordering that the finest cats of Kazan a city on the Volga river be found the biggest the ones best-suited to catching mice so that they can be sent to Her Majestys court. There is a part of me the registrarcollections managerdead conservator that was moaning Nooooo in my head.
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Over the past decade the cats have become as popular as the museums collection the Hermitage staff said. Cats first found a home at the Hermitage long before it became a museum open to the public in the 1850s. There is a cat cafe close-by called The Republic of Cats and a club Hermitage cats friends.