Museum of Russian Submarine Forces Museum of Russian Submarine Forces The A.I. Marinesko Museum of the History of Russian Submarine Forces is a state museum located in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. The museum was named in honor of the Soviet submarine commander Alexander Marinesko, and it's the only municipal museum of Russian submarine forces. The museum was established in 1997. The museum contains many items relevant to the Russian submarine forces, including: models of submarines; personal items, documents and photos of sailors; original equipment from Soviet submarines; items associated with Russian naval traditions; and maps of naval battles. Periodically the museum organizes special exhibitions dedicated to historical
Hermitage Museum was completed in 1787 and has come to be known as the Large Hermitage or Old Hermitage. Catherine also gave the name of the Hermitage to her private theatre, built nearby between 1783 and 1787 by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi. In London in 1787, Catherine acquired the collection of sculpture that belonged to Lyde Browne, mostly Ancient Roman marbles. Catherine used them to adorn the Catherine Palace and park in Tsarskoye Selo, but later they became the core of the Classical Antiquities collection of the Hermitage. From 1787 to 1792, Quarenghi designed and built a wing along the Winter