KQED Charlie Rose September 1, 2015
Demolished and the map of the soviet union was put here, made of precious stone. Rose and concluding remarks from mark kelner, Vice President of the Hermitage Foundation. Its not an art museum. Its a museum of civilization. Its a museum, when catherine the great founded it, were having our 250th centennial, shes, like, look, russia demands and deserves a museum much like nothing worlds ever seen. That was very much her personality, and she started collecting. Whats interesting is everyone thought she was collecting work that was very ancient but the joke among everyone is she was collecting wo...