Exhibitions: The State Hermitage Museum gifts 2014 presented in Saint-Petersburg

Until January 19, 2015 the Hermitage hosts the exhibition which traditionally presents the most interesting monuments, donated to the museum in the past year. In 2014, these were gifts to the State Hermitage Museum in honor of its 250th anniversary.

In St. George Hall of the Winter Palace are exhibited works of Faberge, granted to the museum by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin - a mantel clock, made to the 25th anniversary of the marriage of Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, and "Rothschild" egg-clock, got its name due to the fact that more than a century it was stored in the Rothschild family.

A number of wonderful gifts are presented in the Apollo Hall of the Winter Palace. St. Petersburg Governor G. S. Poltavchenko presented the museum a vase with a picture of the opening ceremony of the Alexander Column on Palace Square in 1834, performed on a porcelain factory by Kornilov brothers in 1830s.

It is also represented: the most valuable historical relic - a personal portfolio of Emperor Alexander I for formal occasions of the Congress of Vienna in 1814; a composition by A. I. Charlemagne "Napoleon on the battlefield of Austerlitz" (gouache on paper, white, 1887); relief depicting Catherine the Great (wood, 1782) works by O.-A. J. Parana; marble statue of Jupiter by famous Venetian sculptor A. Tarsia, made in the years 1717-1718 and decorated at the time the Summer Garden, reunited with the statue of Juno in the Hermitage.

Selected coins will give an idea of the bright collection of coins of the Middle East and the Central Asia of the X century.