why did this take so long bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy occurring if you and the street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that sam paul well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple 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 hermit tash i remember the impression that everything here is alive i'm in a sort of fairy tale and when i touch the feet of the atlantis i felt that they were alive and only statues of ancient gods base seemed alive to me maybe they were just frozen in the moment but they were still living and probably still working some of their miracles.

if we need to preserve them not that i must obviously ideas david that they're all in. deep doo doo today was. the homepage of them and international and. institution and its famous worldwide people are very jealous 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 we are all. bio nobel in time is never late for work but she isn't an employee here at the hermitage era good ionas is a volunteer from england and we stand in the entrance we have see you tell people

when they're passing through to the and turnstiles we have to tell them to take off their outdoor kading let their case in jackets and put them in the family and just answer any general questions that they may have about. the museum about west to find them out so. they're. an excursion. in london iona studies russian culture different from russia recommended that she work at the petersburg prison into. the. east coast most of us just south of here that's certain you tend to associate with us new school it's all of. those ninety m. yes it's true for that not totally fancy and some of you just wouldn't die as uncle sam uncle escudo been reaching over to learn there soon.

iona works here for free she's one of one hundred fifty volunteers they are there 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 newcomers 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 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 peatross i have absolutely no idea what a 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 cat's this lets people realise that underneath the heavy it would catch in my own very early through the day and you know get in the way down as any of the isis life that they have. she's 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. me felicitas 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 when there are no attacks on a becomes a volunteer will be miss arias decision. came to the home of his one day to offer his own help her through this 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 to 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 and. 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 how much is 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 we are. very important why. it's. a.

chronology is 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. put it out of the water. that it's so. wrong and. show any rings. it's. more useful to do

it was. recently begun taking photographs. descriptions. ancient greeks found on the north coast. they've measured the whole sarcophagus as well as every tiny detail you can see. so many decorative elements every single decoration that needed to be measured photographed. most important. in the 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 fascinating process.

santa is going through her own probation period she'll have to go through all this herself if she succeeds. their 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 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 safe 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 patter here she's going to. here. right here. where often asked which candidate you know a favorite book 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 a little girl my beauty let's take a pill here's a good girl well done 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 would 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 mice atoll we have so many cats but 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 under discussion he does it like this. my childhood fairy tale and when my parents would take me with you when you're here and forget which century. it felt like your and historical but i remember when i was a child i always wanted to walk around and i strive with courage to wear a hat of course it was my dream to play a part and 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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this is a map of the hermitage to help you find your way around this is where began and this is a clue that you need to get to where you need to go up close and about this is a quiz that needs to be answered if you get the answer to the question right would you go to our person in a room and then you got another flyer and go to another room to get hold of the boys need to pay attention to these like 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 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 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 watch some t.v. but it's not that interesting it's boring i have poor and 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 hermit 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 chance of the questions and then move along the route that. you found a fish you found was so great that question sea life to 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 green the bouyeri presents one of the summer months. to that. next question. next question. if your answer. falls on. nugent i mean like the way children's health positons oh i'm helping them nice they're having fine you guessed photon. you see that's very very funny. synopsis of. 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 identify us

back to it it's not spec and they're all getting excited it's obvious and out and i think they at i find it interesting as well to give them advice. so 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 because this because. 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 director. he didn't mention who he was a where he was from like everyone else he helped everywhere. to the 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 french 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 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 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. he was like. in america everyone always talks about the hermit 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 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 the hermitage over the summer museum stuff conduct excavations in russia's regions and inflate everyone to take part. 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 sites remain unknown usually archaeology department i've done translating work about different. archaeological excavations that people have done but signed the researchers are done and also i was doing some translating on renaissance art that's definitely been the most rewarding work because it's interesting and it also helps me practice russians.

department is for many volunteers one of the most interesting places in the museum . you can literally touch history. to draw 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. hunted and to see the. good public feel of this 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 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. of what was stored in the museum was once moved there but there's a million items. alone just being attentive that is russia's interest through the second. shows. certainly. 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 to tend his 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. 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 soviet union. and this installation. it represents the emergence 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 construction and during communism was sold there for this part probably just represents the continuing construction there is still many things they haven't seen the herrmann towers but i think one day they'll catch up and join in other events. i want to pass something new look and thank god i did that i glued this best says. to him painted over that crack over there it's this involvement was everything that 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 accidents.

oksana is now all the interior of the habitat and its new employee up to six years of support to the museum she's been also did. but even so still volunteer is at the end of her working day she hurries to meet the visitors with a smile. she good laboratory to mccurry was able to build on the most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world events this is why you should care only. lud.

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