Russian Ark Russian Ark Russian Ark (, "Russkij Kovcheg") is a 2002 experimental historical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. It was filmed entirely in the Winter Palace of the Russian State Hermitage Museum on 23 December 2001 using a single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. An unnamed narrator wanders through the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The narrator implies that he died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through the palace. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various periods in the city's 300-year history.
Restelo Hermitage its rectangular window and southern doorway is covered with a star-shaped ribbed vaulted ceiling. The altar is decorated with Mudéjar azulejo tiles, the original of which is housed in the "Museu do Azulejo" ("Museum of Azulejo"). Restelo Hermitage The Hermitage of Restelo (), alternately Chapel of Saint Jerome (), is a hermitage in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, in the municipality of Lisbon. The religious architecture has Manueline and revivalist Neo-manueline elements, consisting of a single-nave structure with a vaulted ceiling and surrounded by a modernist landscape, as evidenced by a preoccupation with choice of plants and