State Hermitage Museum St PetersburgOriginal vintage Soviet film poster about the State Hermitage featuring the five metre high Atlas statues at the historical portico entrance of the New Hermitage building in St Petersburg Russia. Founded in 1764 by the Empress of Russia Catherine the Great (Catherine II; 1729 1796), the State Hermitage Museum of art and culture is located between the Neva River embankment and Palace Square and is the second largest art museum in the world. Good