The Hermitage Museum is the Russian National Museum El Mittash Museum "Six palace complex " in a palace, it is the mid-18th century Russia's outstanding example of neoclassical architecture, El Mittash Museum and the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York together, known as the world's four major museums.

The Hermitage Museum was first built between 1754 and 1762, is the greatest monument of Russian neoclassical architectural art in the mid-18th century, located on the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, originally the palace of the Russian emperor, after the October Revolution opened as part of the St. Petersburg State Ermitage Museum, which was first the private museum of Russian Empress Ekaterina II.

In 1764, Ekaterina II purchased 250 paintings by Lomblon, Rubens and others from Berlin and stored them in the Hermitage (French, meaning "Hermitage"), from which the museum got its name. During her 34-year reign (1762-1796), Ekaterina II acquired a large collection of artworks of all kinds, including 16,000 coins and medals, as a sign of her power. The museum's collection is so vast that it is said that to walk through the 350 or so open halls of the Almitaş Museum would require a journey of about 22 kilometers.

The grandeur and scale of Hermitage Square is astonishing, and its entire architecture is very harmonious. All the buildings were built in different styles by different architects in different eras. To commemorate the victory over Napoleon, an Alexander Memorial Column was erected in the center of the square, 47.5 meters high, 4 meters in diameter, weighing 600 tons, made of a single block of granite, without any support, standing only by its own weight on the cornerstone, its top is an angel holding a cross, and the angel's feet are stepping on a snake, which is a symbol of victory over the enemy.