The Hermitage guide

1 Main Staircase

2 Saltykov Staircase

3 State Councillors’ Staircase

4 Main Staircase of the New Hermitage

5 Commandant’s Staircase

6 October Staircase

• Prehistoric Culture

Art of the Peoples of Central Asia

Art of Ancient Egypt

Classical Antiquity

• • Western European Art

Russian Culture

• • • Western European and American Art

Oriental Art

Numismatics

The Hermitage Guide

AURORA ART PUBLISHERS

LENINGRAD

Introduction by Boris Piotrovsky

Texts by Boris Asvarishch, Alice Bank, Xenia Gorbunova, Galina Komelova, Vladimir Lukonin, Vsevolod Potin, Irina Saverkina, Galina Smirnova, and Vladimir Vasilyev

Translated from the Russian by Vladimir Vezey and Yuri Pamfilov

Layout and design by Galina and Yuri Dyshlenko

© Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1981

Printed and bound in the USSR