Yaroslav Levchenko Department of the President of Russia, which is Constantin Palace, in Strelna, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He held another solo exhibition at the external branch of the State Hermitage Museum, the Hermitage-Vyborg Centre (2011–2012). Nine of his works are in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. His works also appear in the National Congress Palace Museum St. Petersburg, Russia, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, the Vyborg castle State Museum, the Russian Academy of Fine arts, St. Petersburg and the World Expo Museum Shanghai, China. In 1989, he moved to Tokyo, Japan with his parents from the USSR. In 1999,
Hermitage Museum 1884 in Paris, Alexander III of Russia acquired the collection of Alexander Basilewski, featuring European medieval and Renaissance artifacts. In 1885, the Arsenal collection of arms and armour, founded by Alexander I of Russia, was transferred from the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo to the Hermitage. In 1914, Leonardo's "Benois Madonna" was added to the collection. Immediately after the Revolution of 1917 the Imperial Hermitage and Winter Palace, former Imperial residence, were proclaimed state museums and eventually merged. The range of the Hermitage's exhibits was further expanded when private art collections from several palaces of the Russian Tsars and numerous