Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. From right to left: CEO of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District Alexander Gutsan, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov and Assistant to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky during a tour of the halls of the permanent exhibition of ancient art.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov in the Roman courtyard.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. From left to right: Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District Alexander Gutsan, General Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky and Assistant to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky in the front lobby of the New Hermitage.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. Aide to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky (left) and Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District Alexander Gutsan (right) in the Jupiter Hall.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. From left to right: Russian President Vladimir Putin, CEO of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Tatyana Golikova, Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District Alexander Gutsan and Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov during an examination of the results of the work of Hermitage restorers in the hall Jupiter.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov (left) in the main lobby of the New Hermitage.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. CEO of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky (left) and Deputy CEO of the State Hermitage for Research, Chief Herald of Russia Georgy Vilinbakhov (right) during a visit to the Hermitage by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. Russian President Vladimir Putin during a tour of the halls of the permanent exhibition of ancient art.

State Hermitage Museum. Genre photography. Views of halls.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. Genre photography. Roman courtyard (Antique decorative sculpture). Antique bronze statue of the goddess of victory Victoria Calvatone.

State Hermitage Museum. Hall of Dionysus (Roman decorative sculpture). Sculpture of Aphrodite (Venus Tauride). Genre photography.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Correspondent, head of the Vesti program bureau in St. Petersburg Salima Zarif in the Jupiter Hall during a visit to the State Hermitage Museum by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

State Hermitage Museum. Roman courtyard (Antique decorative sculpture). Sculpture "Infant Hercules strangling snakes." Genre photography.

State Hermitage Museum. Hall of Jupiter (Art of Ancient Rome I-IV centuries). Genre photography.

State Hermitage Museum. Roman courtyard (Antique decorative sculpture). Sculpture "Sleeping Hermaphrodite". Genre photography.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. VGTRK political commentator Pavel Zarubin (left) and correspondent and head of the Vesti program bureau in St. Petersburg Salima Zarif (right) during a visit to the State Hermitage Museum by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

State Hermitage Museum. Hall of Jupiter (Art of Ancient Rome I-IV centuries). Sculpture of Jupiter. Genre photography.

State Hermitage Museum. Hall of Jupiter (Art of Ancient Rome I-IV centuries). Sculpture of Jupiter. Genre photography.

State Hermitage Museum. Genre photography. An exhibit of the Hermitage jewelry collection. Chatelain.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and CEO of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky (right) during a tour of exhibits from the collection of 18th-century imperial jewelers Jeremiah Pozier and Louis-David Duval, which recently underwent a comprehensive restoration, in the Jupiter Hall.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the State Hermitage. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and CEO of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky (right) during a tour of exhibits from the collection of 18th-century imperial jewelers Jeremiah Pozier and Louis-David Duval which recently underwent a comprehensive restoration, in the Jupiter Hall.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to St. Petersburg. A journalist during a visit to the State Hermitage Museum by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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