Museums
This issue presents a new project of the State Hermitage and «Ore and Metals» Publishing House. Articles about the museum collections are devoted to the 300-th anniversary of Saint Petersburg.
This special issue includes the articles about the highlights of Hermitage, which describe the achievements of mining and metallurgy, inventions, discoveries, improvements and facilities, created by engineers and workers.
This issue includes the articles of leading research workers of the State Hermitage about the monuments, created by various outstanding masters: painters, stone carvers, jewelers, architects, forgers etc. In their creative work, these masters widely used not only leading scientific developments of their time, but also stone and metals, extracted by mining engineers and metallurgists.
You may find below more details about the issue or book printed or electronic version of the journal.
| ArticleName | Inexhaustible treasury of the Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Matveev V. Yu. |
| Stone | |
| ArticleName | The stone as phenomenon of the culture of ancient Egypt |
| ArticleAuthor | Bol’shakov A. O. |
| ArticleName | The Venus Tauric as Hellenic original |
| ArticleAuthor | Kruglov A. V. |
| ArticleName | Antonio Canova’s works in the Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Androsov S. O. |
| ArticleName | Imperial stone-cutting plants and their works in the Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Mavrodina N. M. |
| ArticleName | The stone in the interiors of Zimny palace |
| ArticleAuthor | Nikitina N. N. |
| ArticleName | The permanent values: nephrite in China |
| ArticleAuthor | Men’shikova M. L. |
| Glass | |
| ArticleName | Imperial glass works in the 2nd part of XVIII – 1st third of XIX centuries |
| ArticleAuthor | Malinina T. A. |
| ArticleName | The art of stained-glass window (restoration of stained-glass windows in the State Hermitage) |
| ArticleAuthors | Krylova E. M., Kozlova M. O. |
| Metal | |
| ArticleName | Arzhan-2 barrow: revelation and discovery |
| ArticleAuthor | Chugunov K. V. |
| ArticleName | Technical secrets of things manufacturing from Arzhan-2 barrow |
| ArticleAuthor | Minasyan R. S. |
| ArticleName | Hellenic gold in the Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Kalashnik Yu. P. |
| ArticleName | Authenticating historical metal in a museum laboratory |
| ArticleAuthor | Kosolapov A. J. |
| ArticleName | Restoration of archeological metal in the State Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthors | Senatorova O. Yu., Burshneva S. G. |
| ArticleName | English silver in the Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Lopato M. N. |
| ArticleName | The Knight’s hall of the Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Miller Yu. A. |
| ArticleName | Trade-marks of Russian ironmaking works revealed on the metallic coatings of the buildings of the State Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Matsenkov S. A. |
| ArticleName | Masterpieces of decorative bronze in the Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Zek Yu. Ya. |
| ArticleName | Sculptures of ancient and medieval Thailand as the subject of worship for all people and gods |
| ArticleAuthor | Deshpande O. P. |
| ArticleName | “The forge” picture painted by Joseph Wright from Derby |
| ArticleAuthor | Renne E. P. |
| Water | |
| ArticleName | The fountains of the Hermitage |
| ArticleAuthor | Voronikhina L. N. |
