A special issue of "Hermitage News" was published

Our correspondents primarily paid attention to the Exhibitions opening this winter. These include New Arrivals 1997 – 2014, Hermitage of Her Majesty, Dada and Surrealism, and History of the Hermitage in the Mirror Glass. You will find it all in this issue.

Yuri Pyatnitsky, Senior Researcher for the Byzantine and Middle East Department, tells the newspaper about the new exhibition named Byzantine Art of the 4th-15th Centuries. Igor Sychev, keeper of the chandeliers, speaks about the recreation of chandeliers in the Library of Nicholas II, and art conservators talk about their work on the Chesme Inkwell.