Electronic visas pave the way for ever greater visitors numbers, creating major logistical problems at Tsarskoe Selo and the Hermitage

Collaboration spearheaded by the State Hermitage Museum was made official in Damascus this week

André-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud urges Russia to reunite collection in Moscow

The Hermitage will also expand its presence in Crimea with a new cultural centre planned in Sevastopol

Unusual month-long display of recently restored work by Leonardo’s favourite and heir will be lent by the State Hermitage Museum

There has been intense competition to borrow works by the artist during the 500th anniversary of his death this year

The museums are pooling the divided collections of Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers for a quartet of exhibitions

Russia’s entry for 2019 show influenced by Gospel of Luke and includes installation by famous film director Alexander Sokurov

Russian museum is pursuing global expansion with long-term plans under way for Barcelona and China

Half of movable works by Renaissance master included in St Petersburg show

State Hermitage Museum and Tretyakov are involved in arts centre in contested region

The Hungarian firm Gedeon Richter to fund three-year project to restore works from the Russian museum that relate to the concept of female beauty

Leading scholar says gallery's own curators believed Madonna Litta to be by Boltraffio, a pupil of the master

First-ever major restoration for the artist’s only work in a Russian museum

Peter the Great’s tailored justaucorps, Catherine the Great's gown and more on display in St Petersburg

Museum in tsars' Winter Palace, symbol of Bolshevik takeover, only decided how to mark 1917 centenary in February

Industrialist Oleg Deripaska has become the Russian museum’s most generous private donor—even if his support is part of a public relations initiative