just empty frames hung on the walls of the empty hermitage holds. despite the hardships of the blockade hermitage workers organized lectures and science conferences to inspire the people remaining in the city. and. the. museum director. says that quite often participants were brought in on stretches unable to walk themselves because they were too weak from severe hunger this. is so it's translators and scientists were brought in from the fraud for that was a formidable task conditions were difficult here too people here were saying that but if need be you could carry them in your arm imagine people coming from the front line though where the city's fate was being decided that's a whole different story. of a historian and a blockade survivor has vivid memories of those events. in the spring of one nine hundred forty two leningrad so far it is announced the start of a seed sowing season they said leningrad residents would have to supply themselves with food to that end. of land to be used as vegetable gardens as well as providing grain people in the c

good possibility that "bathers by a river" was connected to two paintings that are today at the hermitage, "dance two" and "music." these are big nine foot tall 13-foot wide beautiful very vibrant paintings of a dance scene and a music scene. and by size alone we thought they might have been connected. there was always a thought among many matisse scholars that maybe matisse had received a commission from sergei show keen who had commissioned those two paintings that perhaps batheers was attached to that. so we had some idea idea before and in the '70s x-rays were taken of our picture. it's a big painting so it takes 122 sheets of x-ray of film to image. in those days we were able to cut those x-rays and piece them together. old schools are and paste and you could see what had gone on on the picture but each x-ray film had it own exposure time and colors changed between the sheets. also we took cross sections a president time which are microscopic samples taken at the surface of the painting throw the surface of the canvass and when you do that you can see different strata and color of pa

>> well, there was a fund that was the largest investment fund back in 2005s the hermitage investment fund, it had $4.5 billion in assets. the russians started to slowly take over this fund and take over the companies that this fund was investing in. there was a lot of corruption unveiled, and the fund hired this 37-year-old lawyer, who was working for a western law firm in moscow, and he would go to court and he'd present the corruption charges and suddenly he was thrown in jail. sergey magnifsky was his nail and listen to a description by the head of the heritage fund who is shedding light on this human rights case. >> on november 16th, he went into critical condition and then they did move him to a prison hospital but what they did to him at that hospital is the most unforgivable thing i've ever heard. instead of treating him they put him in a strait jacket, put him in an isolation cell and left him for one hour, 18 minutes until he died. >> reporter: again, if you want more information about this case, www.russian untouchables.com. there's legislation now in congress being sponsor