times of peter the great when he brought the first cats from holland a bit later his daughter elizabeth shue just special de craye for cats to be bred in what is now modern day ten. 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. we are also volunteers of sorts we work for food and that serena she is also a volunteer as a spoon in medicine and takes care of us i don't quite understand why she does it. matter of course her name is so she called. if you pat her hair she's going to. need hair. right here. where often asked which cat is our favorite little 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 but. here we go. we now have sixty five cats at the hermitage that can sometimes reach eighty five there were times when w