Russian State Library Moscow's first public museum, and housed the Art collection of count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev, which had been given to the Russian people and transferred from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Its donation covered above all books and manuscripts as well as an extensive numismatic and an ethnographic collection. These, as well as approximately 200 paintings and more than 20,000 prints, which had been selected from the collection of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, could be seen in the so-called Pashkov House (a palace, established between 1784 and 1787, in the proximity of the Kremlin). Tsar Alexander II of Russia donated the
Hermitage, Edmonton Hermitage, Edmonton Hermitage is a residential area in the northeast portion of the City of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. It was established in 1970 through Edmonton City Council's adoption of the Hermitage General Outline Plan, which guides the overall development of the area. Located in northeast Edmonton, the Hermitage area is bounded by 50 Street to the west, Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) and a Canadian National rail line to the south, the North Saskatchewan River valley to the east, and the Kennedale Ravine to the north. The eastern portion of the area is bisected by Victoria Trail. The Kennedale Industrial