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Title Statement | Catherine the Great: a lust for art / [videorecording] : Christian Science Monitor in cooperation with the State Hermitage Museum and Daniel Wilson Productions ; presented by South Carolina Educational Television ; produced and directed by John Baehrend ; written by Rod MacLeish. |
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Series | Hermitage, a Russian odyssey |
Additional Contributors | Baehrend, John |
MacLeish, Roderick,1926- | |
Publication | Chicago: Home Vision :[Distributed by] Public Media, c1994. |
Extent of Item | 1 videocassette (54 min.) |
ISBN | 0780015061 (v.r.) |
Other Number | 577238 |
General Notes | Cassette label title. Originally released as a PBS television broadcast. |
Production Credits | Director of photography, Hein G.A.M. Groot ; editor, Robert Marshall ; music, Steven Schoenberg. |
Performance Credits | Host: Rod MacLeish. |
Audience & Ratings | General. |
System Details | VHS, stereo. |
Terms of Use | For private home use only. |
Summary | Video tour of the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg. This episode deals with Catherine the Great, who purchased massive art collections from Europe's monarchs, then created the Hermitage in the Winter Palace (1754-1762) to house her treasures. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Art--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg |
Art museums--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg | |
By Name | Catherine1729-1796 |
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia) | |
By Location | Russia--History--Catharine II, 1762-1796 |