when your economy collapses because a revolt infrastructure breaks down and the shelves go bare also professional revolutionaries get their supplies from somebody and foreign powers were to say funded barrack and 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 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 but everything here is alive but 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.

can see it's a perception that i must obviously ideas david that it. is easy to do without but. the hunted to them and international and. institution and its famous well why yes there at south that i get. 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 play thing let the case in jackets and put them in the fake family and just answer any general questions that they may have about. the museum about west finds them out still. there. and excursions. in london iona studies russian culture different from russia recommended that she work at the petersburg going into. the school together but that doesn't appear as and that's certainly a step to a says a when the see a schoolgirl is all of. those put an a.t.m. yes it's true for but not totally fancy and most of us wouldn't do that as uncle sam uncle escudo going to be conservative love her still.

io know what's here for free she's one of one hundred fifty volunteers they are sure 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 ana. 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 newcomer sunnah can find enough free time and she passes her probation period she will also become a volunteer at russia's grand museum. with that he will be taking part in one of

the events dharma taj can't 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 what a way of doing or what it is for but i see that it's all about the cats day of camp . which is and. it's for the cats and there's lots of people to realize that underneath the heavens it will object to catching mice very early through the day and you know get in the way down is any of the precious life that 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 the felicitous i think we need to fix

this here. 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 and offered to organize a group of state hermit has fallen tears 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. 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. 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.

i will tell you a little bit. 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. francis' infelicitous to work out how old these are. to have peace in their hand because it's. the water. that it's so. scary to do it wrong and. show any rings and it's it's easy. it's more useful to do

it. recently volunteers have begun taking photographs. descriptions. ancient greeks found on the black sea coast. they've measured the whole sarcophagus as well as every tiny detail you can see the. so many decorative elements every single decoration needed to be measured photographed. the most important is that each volunteers 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 immersed in this fan process. santa

is going through her own probation period she'll have to go through all this herself if she succeeds. or assignment is to help organize a game for the grand event can stay at the hermitage. cancer 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 tatarstan 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've had her here she's going to per year. right here. where often asked which cat is our favorite but that was 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 well done so 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 this cat's a selfish they like their own territory. and we don't have my so told 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. parent and she's my childhood fairy tale and when my parents would take me with you when you're here and forget which century to. feel like you're a historian. i remember when i was a child i always wanted to walk around and i strive with courage to where i had a course it was my dream to play a part and 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.

some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred into bill passed down from generation. this is a total structure in the culture of new mexico i tell you what i mean this is not going to impact us well in mexico whatever happens here. we're not talk about it in the in the you know in the you know all the ordinance or. the engineered crops why

do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. news.

polo don't. let them tell you the game begins here and this is the story today we're fishing and this is a map of the hermitage to help you find your way around this is where began spots and this is a clue that you need to get to where you need to go vocals in about this is a quiz that needs to be answered if you get the answer to the question right to kill you go to our person in a room and then you get another flier and go to another room pick you to put to the boys need to pay attention to the kiddies here. you 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 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 you a later occurred but then she'd 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 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 one so go wrong 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. of the. next question. next question. if your answer. was and. usually i mean like the way children's health positrons i'm helping them nice to have in fine you guessed photon. you see that's very very funny. seeing the phone. here.

we've got infested in a cave and. it seems like a great game it's really getting sojourn in both because they have set identified us back to us back and they're all getting excited and obvious and out and i think they add i find it interesting as well they give them advice. as if that's it with them so this year's reward for all the participants was a trip to the theater where a musical performance was staged for them and their views on this but 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 children of people who worked in world famous museums . whose father is the louis 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 anyone who wanted. along with everyone else still to visit his 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 dip in this. 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 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 a music. it was like. in america everyone always talks about the home the ties. the collection of old renaissance art and 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 study history and reading about. the revolution that was the same piers berg and that 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 in the north and. one of raymond's dreams is to join an expedition with just from a message over the summer museum's dolls conduct excavations in russia's regions and inflate everyone to take part. 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 archaeology department i've done translating work about different. archaeological

excavations that people have done but signed and researchers have 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. department is for many volunteers one of the most interesting places in the museum. you can literally touch history. for these ancient objects which are from. different things that they found and i need to document this way as a. kilo. and you have to be very precise been doing these drawings it's not like normal and touring where you might miss out some things hey you need to every every mark is important for the. thing to be and to be behind the thing. and to see the. good promise feel the best

research. which i would have no idea that there were so many shelves and shelves of all these different i. think most people wouldn't even. know about what's going on behind. sometimes thank the volunteers by giving them free tours for example a tour is a new storage facility. a third of what was stored in the museum was once moved there a million items. the largest being a tentative interest russia's interest catherine the second by the also number of souls on certainly list. there was a visit by the turkish ambassador to st petersburg with diplomatic guess and one of those gifts is this tent it's all around us it's like were inside the museum exhibit. this is only a fifth of it the rest is still rolled up and stored away the tent is way to launch

because it covers about a hundred square meters. along with a new storage facility. will soon be offering the museum of modern not. this building is the left wing of the general headquarters built by karl rossi in the early nineteenth century before the revolution and the ministry of finance and the ministry of foreign affairs were here next year this grand reconstruction will end and will have one of the largest contemporary art museums. of the world 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. who. they

created this immediately after the collapse of the first soviet union. members installation. it represents the emergence and growth of the soviet union and its collapse was it. not some did it actually yes this isn't just a dead body left behind. part of the installation was we live through constant constructions during call me in as them 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 he'll pass something you can thank god i didn't that i glued this test says. painted over that crack over there it's this involvement was everything

and he passed by you see it and realize you have something to do with it as well you know also part of history part of the museum part of his accidents. is now on terra to have. its new employee up to six years of support to the museum she's been offered a job. but even so elena's still volunteers at the end of her working day she hurries to meet the visitors with a smile. she

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