260 years of Hermitage. Russian House Podcast

What legends surround the Hermitage Are there really secret messages from the royal family left in the museum And how did the Hermitage organize festive events even during the Great Patriotic War We talked about it in the new edition of the Russian House Podcast with Elina Yamusheva, a blogger and guidetranslator who knows almost everything about Russia s most famous museum. People still think that there is an underground passage from the Winter Palace to Matilda Kshesinskaya s mansion on the Petrograd side, although it s hard to imagine how to make it underwater. Why was it logically done To save the heirs, there was somewhere to go, and Matilda herself was more comfortable to continue her relationship with Nicholas II s cousin Andrei, Elina notes. See more in the video , Rossotrudnichestvo, RussianHouse, RussianHousePodcast