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 hermit times i remember the impression but everything here is alive and i'm in a sort of fairy tale and when i touch 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 i'm probably still working some of their miracles. i.

just need to. stop this new idea stephen that it. is easy to do without this. the homepage of them and international and. institution and its famous world why people are yes there at south 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 ya'll . 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 only found in the entrance we have seen healthy and they're passing three t.v. and ten styles we have to tell them to take off their outdoor plating let the case in jackets and put them in the family and and just answer any general questions that they may have about. the museum about west finds not so guy. an excursion. in london iona studies russian culture a friend from russia recommended that she worked at the petersburg prison into. the school to the us of yes and that's getting used to i says a when the sea is still fairly solid. and an a.t.m. yes it's. not totally fancy and. that is one of them on the left could only

be conservative. iow no blacks 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 then we'll have a museum pass made for them. five hours a week is the minimum that's required if newcomers sunnah can find enough free time and she passes her probation period she will also become a volunteer at russia's grand museum. where you will be taking part in one of our

grand events dharma taj camp day. instead of an interview i was taking by the hand and led to the basement where we're hanging peaches have absolutely no idea what we're doing or what it is for but i see that it's all about the cats day of camp. which is. this lets people realize underneath the heavens. touching my very early through the day and. get in the way down is any of the precious life that they have. she's right no enemies down here i've been in the museum basement with my friends for years roan dare not set foot in this place they can sense danger from all four.

volunteers. could you help. me felicitas i think we need to fix this here. so. you don't need scissors and i'll show you. ok. so this is how we put our volunteers to work. on a becomes a volunteer will be mysterious decision came to how much is one day to offer his own help. both of us in petersburg 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 pregnant 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 in the hermitage. or so 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 not well received at the museum much as veterans sort of the new generation wanted to take away their jobs after only a few years to stuff members became more friendly. how are you. first of all please. because. it's very important.

it's. about comparing the trees studying them can reveal a lot of information about the state of the environment the tree grew in and its age. francis infelicitous to work out how. to have peace in your hand. and. put it out of the water. that it's so. scary to do it wrong and.

show any rings and it's it's. it's more useful to do it was. recently begun taking photographs. descriptions. ancient greeks found on the northern coast. they've measured the holes as well as every tiny detail you can see the. so many decorative elements every single decoration that needed to be measured. the most important. will be mentioned in the academic prospectus has. featured dozens of names of people who worked on the team here for over

a year all of them were. really a merced in this fascinating process. sanna is going through her own probation period chill have to go through all this herself if she succeeds. or assignment is to help game for the grand event can stay at the hermitage. camps 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 a modern day town. 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 a deal. 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've had your hair she's going to. need hair. right here. where often asked which candidate you know a favorite thought that was our favorite is the one that is the saddest the one who is sick at that moment would give them all the same loving 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 but. 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 it. but if there is more there will be trouble. cat so selfish they like their own territory. and we don't have mice atoll we have so many cats that the money 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. heritage is my childhood fairy tale and when my parents would take me with you when you're here and forget which century it has you feel like you're in his tour i call it a caricature but i remember when i was a child i always wanted to walk around and i strive with the beats courage to wear a hat of course it was my dream to play a part in all this 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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a quiz that needs to be answered if you get the answer to the question right you go to our person in a room and then you get another flyer and go to another room to see which of the boys you need to pay attention to these kiddies here. should care 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 and coming home late now she's used to it with 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. well usually come 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 you a lane or a curve bed and 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 get 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 such as the challenge is to find stories devoted to caps 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 one so go on read that question see life two 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. you get that. next question. next question. if your answer. was alan. nugent i really like the way children's health possibles well i'm hoping them nice to have him find a guest well done. you see that's very very funny. seeing that be found. here. we got infested in a game and. it seems like a great game it's really getting sojourn in both because they have set identified us back to it's not back and they're all getting excited to see us and out and i think they yeah i'm funny interesting as well to give them the fight to get. it

with them so this year's reward for all the participants was a trip to the theater. performance was staged for them. this book that. i yet. she. did not know. a few years ago a portuguese writer worked with the children here in the same way she 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 while the children of people who worked in world famous museums. whose father is the director. she didn't mention who he was a where he was from 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 for hours on end 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 by where's the russian art where is that it 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 were 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 to 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 a museum 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 in 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 and i'm working.

one of raymond streams is to join an expedition with just from the british over the summer museums to conduct excavations in russia's regions and inflate everyone to take out the last 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 sides remain unknown usually the archaeology department i've done translating work about different. archaeological excavations that people have done but 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 helped kill a good part and you have to be very precise spending these drawings it's not like normal and during where you might miss out some things hey you need to every every mark is important for that. leaving to be and to be behind the theme of the hermitage 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 is

a new storage facility in the old village region. that was stored in the museum was once moved there a million items. the largest being a tent given to russia's interests catherine the second was the ultimate empress certainly. 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 the ministry of finance. sound the ministry of foreign affairs where here next year this grand reconstruction will end and will have one of the largest contemporary art museums. and 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. members installation. it represents the emergence and growth of the soviet union and its collapse as it. did it actually yes this isn't just

a dead body left behind it's part of the installation. we lived through constant constructions during communism so therefore this part probably just represents the continuing construction there is still many things they haven't seen the hematologist but i think one day they'll catch up and join in other events. maybe one day you'll pass something. bank my god i did that i glued this says. painted over that crack over there it's this involvement was everything passed by you see it and realize you have something to do with that as well you know also part of history part of the museum part of those accidents. is now all the interior of the habitat and it's new employee after six years of support to the museum she's been offered

a job. but even so still volunteers at the end of her working day she hurries to meet the visitors with a smile. world . series technology innovation called the least developed minutes from around russia we've gone to the future or covered. more news today boylan says once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are all today .

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