to repair i guess what when your economy collapses because a revolt infrastructure breaks down and the shelves go bare also professional revolutionaries get their supplies from somebody and a foreign powers would of say fundamentally revolutionaries they would want something in return aloha hawaii and goodbye alaska if you look at history then you'll see that revolution is brutal and ugly and it's truly the last resort but it still is a resort but that's just my opinion. this is the best time to come here before opening hours to hear all this silence you can feel that the holes and everything in them if they are waiting for this day. i was

about three years old or maybe less when i first came to the hermitage i remember the impression that everything here is alive but i'm in a sort of fairy tale and when i touched the feet of the atlantis i felt that they were alive and all these statues of ancient gods base seemed alive to me too maybe they were just frozen in the moment but they were still living and publicly still working some of their miracles. life. is need to possess and that i must obviously it is david that it. is it didn't without this. the homepage of them and international and.

institution and its famous world why yes there at south that i get to have this opportunity to see what the most of the public wouldn't be able to see. i don't think too many people have ever seen me or even heard of me but i am one of the oldest guardians of the hermitage who knows what could have become of the exhibits if not for me and my friends all. my own a valentine is never late for work but she isn't an employee here at the hermitage or a good iona is a volunteer from england and we stand in the entrance we have seats healthy full and they're passing three t.v. and ten styles we have to tell them to take off the outdoor plating that caisson

jackets and put them in the fake family and just answer any questions that they may have about. the museum about west finds them out so guy that. an excursion. in london iona studies russian culture different from russia recommended that she worked at the petersburg built into. the. east coast of the us of yes and that's it to me is that it says a when the sea is still fairly solid. and had a ninety m. yes it's. not totally fancy and some of us would die and uncle sam uncle escudo may be conservative little closer. iow no bugs here for free she's one of one hundred fifty volunteers they all share

in the visitors carry boxes arranged chairs where they needed to be whatever it takes to earn that prestigious title become a volunteer not everyone is worthy of the on a. it's just about five hours is what we expect from people if they really want to become fully fledged volunteers a lot of them will have a museum pass made for them. required. can find enough free time and probation period she will also become a volunteer at russia's grand museum. that you will be taking part in one of our grand events dharma taj can day. instead of an interview i was taking by the hand and led to the basement where we're hanging peaches i have absolutely no idea where way doing or what it is for but i see that it's all about the cat's tail cap.

which is. it's the cats there's lots of people you realise underneath. it would catch in my very early through the day and you know get in the way down is any of this is what they have. she's all right no enemies down here i've been in the museum basement with my friends for years they're not set foot in this place they can sense danger from all four. volunteers. could you help. with this felicitous i think we need to fix this here but you said. you don't need scissors and i'll show you. ok. so this is how we put our

volunteers to work whether or not oxana becomes a volunteer will be mr hughes decision. came to how much is one day to offer his own help. with groups of the same petersburg's three hundred verse three was approaching and i didn't want to be just an onlooker in two thousand and two i came to the hermitage offer to organize a group of state hermitage volunteers our task was to find one hundred fifty people and select the most active ones who would be able to act in any unexpected situation you have to remember that on the night of may twenty seventh when the hermitage was open all night it had the highest number of visitors. there were many many ladies because a lot of them hope to have their child on this very day because there were special prizes offered like apartments for babies who were born on some petersburg's anniversary. indeed

a few women did deliver their babies right here. or sold the volunteers had to be ready to do whatever was needed to react quickly and keep smiling while helping us to resolve all possible situations. but first the volunteers were well received at the museum. veterans sort of the new generation wanted to take away their jobs. only a few years the stuff members became more friendly. how are you. first of all please. because. it's very important what is the. i will tell you a little bit about the. chronology is about comparing the rings in trees studying them can reveal

a lot of information about the state of the environment the tree grew in and its age volunteers francis infelicitous to work out how old these bills are. to have peace in their hands because it's. put it out of the water. you realize that it's so it's just. a little. bit scary because i don't want to do it wrong and destroy. his. show any. rings and it's it's. it's more useful to do it with. the rings will show underneath what you. recently begun taking

photographs they also write descriptions measure ancient greeks found. the coast. they've measured the whole sarcophagus as well as every tiny detail you can see the guy have so many decorative elements on them every single decoration needed to be measured and photographed. but what's most important is that each of the names of volunteers will be mentioned in the academic prospectuses will feature dozens of names of people who worked on the team here for over a year all of them were really a merced and this fascinating process. is going through her probation period she'll have to go through all this herself if she succeeds. game for the grand event.

cats are very important inhabitants the winter palace and the state hermitage. they've lived in the old winter palace since the times of peter the great when he brought the first cats from holland a bit later his daughter elizabeth just special de craye for cats to be bred in what is now modern day. fifty cats were then brought from. since the seventeen forties those cats descendants have lived in the winter palace they've been provided with food in return for keeping the exhibits say. we are also volunteers of sorts we work for food and that serena she is

also a volunteer gives us food and medicine and takes care of us i don't quite understand why she does it. matter of course her name is so if you call. if you patter here she's going to. hear. right here. where often asked we can't you know a favorite little of our favorite is the one that is the saddest the one who is sick at that moment we give them all the same love and care when they get well we have another favorite who is less happy than the others. and with that you will hear little girl my beauty let's take a pill here's a good girl. here we go. we now have sixty five cats at the hermitage that can sometimes reach eighty five there were times when we

had one hundred twenty cats of course we try to make sure the number of the animals stays within a certain limit seven to is the maximum we can afford. and if there is more there will be trouble. cat so selfish they like their own territory. and we don't have my so told we have so many cats that the month is just don't show up here there was a time when the cats were removed from the museum i don't know what happened but in a month we lost half the library because rats ate everything they don't care much for the value of an exhibit even if it's a million dollars they'll still finish it off i know i have a cat at home and i'm starting to look a bit like a cat. i can now like a cat and my like a cat. my cat and it was good he does it like this.

they're meant as she is my childhood fairy tale and where my parents would take me with you when you all get here and forget which century it has to feel like your historical character but i remember when i was a child i always wanted to walk around and i stress it with a base current to where i had of course it was my dream to play a part in all that is to help somehow to gain access to the archives. this is a very important event both for visitors and volunteers we've been preparing for it all year it's an incredibly exciting celebration for the kids.

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talk sports the v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing story for use. in trying. to find out more visit or a big old all teeth dog called. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

hello. nothing telly the game begins here and this is the story today we're fishing and this is a map of the hematologist to help you find your way around this is where it began and the. it is a clue that you need to get to where you need to go. about this is

a quiz that needs to be answered if you get the answer to the question right you go to our person in the room and then you get another flyer and go to another room for city which of the boys need to pay attention to the kiddies here. just here you go. of course many of my friends my parents at first asked me why i said because i like it it's my hobby for quite a long time mom couldn't get used to me leaving early for the hermitage i'm coming home late now she's used to it the family's gotten used to it yeah she said the hermitage she's at home there and you can drag her out of there. usually comes to the museum before opening time and doesn't leave until god closes the main entrance on the tenth anniversary of the volunteer service friends jokes that they should give. them should be able to spend the night there as well. i

like it maybe i would have been a housewife maybe i read a book maybe watching t.v. but it's not that interesting it's boring i have bored very quickly so i came here first of all it's a museum there's always something interesting happening here there are children today is the hermitage cat day and the day involves a game we catch big fish and small fish which is the challenge is to find stories devoted to cats and fish. we've set up a few checkpoints in the hermitage with volunteers post about them and that's where you see the guys all of them taking part in the quest they find the right picture the right story or piece of art the sounds of the questions and then move along the route that. you found a fish you found was so great that question sea life too large fish glittering with scales it sits on a low table the third one at the feet of the boy who is holding

a bowl of succulent fruit and a basket of cream the bouyeri presents one of the summer months. of that. next question. next question. if your answer. calls on. nugent i mean like the way children's health positrons i'm helping them he still having time he guessed photon. that's very very funny. saying that because. we haven't been tested in a game and. it seems like a great game it's really getting sojourn in both because they have set identify us back to it's not spec and they're all getting excited it's obvious and out and i think they at i'm funny and say give them the bike. so that's it with them so this

year's reward for all the participants was a trip to the theatre were a musical performance was specially staged for them and their use is akin to that. i. did not know. a few years ago a portuguese writer worked with the children here in the same way he had decided to write a book about russia and came to work and. back then volunteers were often bankers who'd gone bust in the crisis the children of people who worked in world famous museums. whose father is the director. he didn't mention who he

was a where he was from like everyone else he helped everywhere he helped a conference is he helped with evening events he helped if we had to meet guests or something he helped the department carry boxes folders and he always worked with us here he also talked to frank here in the department to anyone who wanted. along with everyone else student visitors questions and sometimes the most unexpected questions. some people think that they're at the russian museum and when they're told at the moment they're very surprised with where's the russian art where's the tip and they say you know one time for example a young man came up looking around the room asked where he was he was told you're in a museum. then he was still surprised his second question was but which one exactly did this chinese tourists are an interesting but i've never found anything that

they find particularly interesting they see paintings hanging on the poles as just to corrections the same with floors and ceilings i even heard of one group of chinese tourists who turned down a trip to the hermitage. because they said they'd already been to the over so they already knew what i mean. it was like. in america everyone always talks about the home the ties. the collection of old renaissance art that's the most famous stuff that gets talked about america and i of course want to see it and i also in america i studied history and reading about . the revolution that was in st petersburg and all the stuff that happened here through history and i got to see that all my first day here and i've seen that many many times since i've been working.

one of raymond streams is to join an expedition with just from the. over the summer museum stuff conduct excavations in russia's regions and then play to everyone to take part in less experience of this is our expedition we've been doing it for fifty years now last year we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary and i have to say that many monuments have been discovered over those fifty years of excavation but we can still say that even more sites remain unknown usually in the archaeology department i've done translating work about different. archaeological excavations that people have done that signed the research i've done and also i was doing some translating on renaissance art that's definitely been the most rewarding work because it's been interesting and it also helped me practice russians. in the archaeology department is for many volunteers one of the most interesting places in

the museum. you can literally touch history. and to draw these ancient objects from. different things that they found and i need to document this way as here health care loads good part and you have to be very precise spending these drawings it's not like normal and during my mess out some things hey you need to every every mark is important for that. for me having to be in there to be behind the theme or have a tense and to see the. good public feel the best research. which i would have no idea that there were so many selves and shelves of all these different i. think most people wouldn't even. know about what was going on behind.

sometimes thank the volunteers by giving them free tours for example a tour as a new storage facility in the old village region. of what was stored in the museum was once moved there a million items. the largest being a tent given to russia's interest transfer in the second also known emperor shows on syria. there was a visit by the turkish ambassador to st petersburg with diplomatic gifts and one of those gifts is this tent it's all around us it's like we're inside the museum exhibit. this is i mean a fifth of it the rest is still rolled up and stored away turned his way to launch because it covers about a hundred square meters. along with a new storage facility. will soon be offering a museum of modern art. this

building is the left wing of the general headquarters build by karl rossi in the early nineteenth century before the revolution and. ministry of finance and the ministry of foreign affairs were here next year this grand reconstruction and will have one of the largest contemporary art museums. in one of the two courtyards which have been rebuilt so far we can already see one of the first exhibits of the it's an installation created by the already famous russian artist and. they created this immediately after the collapse of the soviet union. installation. it represents the emergence. of the soviet union and its collapse as it. did it actually. isn't just the left

behind it's part of the installation. we lived through constant construction during communism so therefore this part probably just represents the continuing construction there is still many things they haven't seen the herrmann but i think one day they'll catch up and join in other events. maybe you want to pass something you look at bank my guide i did that i glued this test says for example you painted over that crack over there it's this involvement was our breath and if you passed by you see it and realize you have something to do with that as while you're also part of history part of the museum part of those accidents. oksana is now all volunteer at the habitat and elena its new employee after six years of selfless support to the museum she's been offered

a job. but even so elaina still volunteers at the end of her working day she hurries to meet the visitors with a smile. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have to use healthy guinea pigs in the regular society they're not able to use prisoners i mean they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. paid to pop the deadly pills to get in the subway he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him get. his pharmacy really about helping people.

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