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A magazine is a publication , usually a periodical publication , which is printed or electronically published ( sometimes referred to as an online magazine ). Magazines are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety ___MASK18___ content . They are generally financed by advertising , by a purchase price , by prepaid subscriptions , or a combination ___MASK18___ the three . At its root , the word " magazine " refers to a collection or storage location . In the case ___MASK18___ written publication , it is a collection ___MASK18___ written articles . This explains why magazine publications share the word root with gunpowder magazines , artillery magazines , firearms magazines , and , in French , retail stores such as department stores . The Palace Embankment or Palace Quay is a ___MASK27___ along the Neva River in ___MASK3___ ___MASK36___ which contains the complex of the Hermitage Museum buildings ( including the Winter Palace ), the Hermitage Theatre , the Marble Palace , the Vladimir Palace , the New Michael Palace , the Saltykov Mansion and the Summer Garden . ___MASK39___ iskusstva (" World ___MASK18___ Art ") was a Russian magazine and the artistic movement it inspired and embodied , which was a major influence on the Russians who helped revolutionize European art during the first decade ___MASK18___ the 20th century . In fact , few Europeans outside Russia actually saw issues ___MASK18___ the magazine itself . A museum is an institution that cares for ( conserves ) a collection ___MASK18___ artifacts and other objects ___MASK18___ artistic , cultural , historical , or scientific importance and some public museums make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary . Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities , towns and even the countryside . Museums have varying aims , ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public . The goal ___MASK18___ serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the general public . The State Hermitage Museum is a museum ___MASK18___ art and culture in ___MASK36___ , Russia . One ___MASK18___ the largest and oldest museums in the world , it was founded in 1754 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852 . Its collections , ___MASK18___ which only a small part is on permanent display , comprise over three million items ( the numismatic collection accounts for about one third ___MASK18___ them ) including the largest collection ___MASK18___ paintings in the world . The collections occupy a large complex ___MASK18___ six historic buildings along Palace Embankment , including the Winter Palace , a former residence ___MASK18___ Russian emperors . Apart from them , the Menshikov Palace , Museum ___MASK18___ Porcelain , Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing ___MASK18___ the General Staff Building are also part ___MASK18___ the museum . The museum has several exhibition centers abroad . The Hermitage is a federal state property . Since July 1992 , the director ___MASK18___ the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky . Konstantin Andreyevich Somov ( Russian :    , November 30 , 1869 -- May 6 , 1939 ) was a Russian artist associated with the ___MASK39___ iskusstva . Born into a family ___MASK18___ a major art historian and Hermitage Museum curator Andrey Ivanovich Somov , he became interested in the 18th - century art and music at an early age . ___MASK93___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK93___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth ___MASK18___ the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end ___MASK18___ March 2016 . The European western part ___MASK18___ the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % ___MASK18___ the population live in European ___MASK93___ . ___MASK93___ ' s capital Moscow is one ___MASK18___ the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include ___MASK36___ , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Catherine ___MASK89___ ___MASK18___ Russia (" Yekaterina Alekseyevna "), also known as Catherine the Great (" Yekaterina Velikaya ";  ), was the most renowned and the longest - ruling female leader ___MASK18___ Russia , reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age ___MASK18___ 67 . Born in Stettin , ___MASK61___ , Prussia as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt - Zerbst - Dornburg , she came to power following a " coup d ' état " when her husband , Peter III , was assassinated . Russia was revitalised under her reign , growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognised as one ___MASK18___ the great powers ___MASK18___ Europe . Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky is the Director ___MASK18___ the Hermitage Museum in ___MASK36___ . He was born in Yerevan in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic on 9 November 1944 to Boris Piotrovsky , a notable Orientalist and himself the future Director ___MASK18___ the Hermitage , and Armenian mother Hripsime Djanpoladjian . ___MASK36___ is Russia ' s second - largest city after Moscow , with five million inhabitants in 2012 , and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea . It is politically incorporated as a federal subject ( a federal city ). Situated on the Neva River , at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea , it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May . In 1914 , the name was changed from ___MASK36___ to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad , and in 1991 back to ___MASK36___ . Between 1713  1728 and 1732  1918 , ___MASK36___ was the imperial capital of Russia . In 1918 , the central government bodies moved to Moscow . The Winter Palace in ___MASK36___ , Russia , was , from 1732 to 1917 , the official residence of the Russian monarchs . Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square , adjacent to the site of Peter the Great ' s original Winter Palace , the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837 , when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt . The storming of the palace in 1917 as depicted in Soviet paintings and Eisenstein ' s 1927 film " October " became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution .