To the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1917: The exhibitions within the framework of the project "Storm of the Winter Palace" were opened in the Hermitage dedicated to Kerensky and the Vereshchagin Commission

In the White Hall of the Winter Palace (the State Hermitage, Saint-Petersburg), within the framework of the large-scale project "Storm of the Winter Palace", the exhibition "Alexander Kerensky in the Winter Palace" and "Vereshchagin Art Commission" were opened. These expositions are fragments of the future exhibition "The Winter Palace and the Hermitage in 1917", the opening of which will be held on October 25, 2017.

In July 1917, the "Art Commission for the Acceptance of Movable Property of the Petersburg Palaces of the Former Petrograd Palace Management", established at the direction of the Provisional Government, began its work in the Winter Palace. The commission was headed by a real state councilor Vasily Andreevich Vereshchagin, a connoisseur of art, a collector, one of the founders of the magazine "Old Years" and the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Art and Antiquities in Russia.

The exhibition "Alexander Kerensky in the Winter Palace" is located in the Library of Nicholas II. July 8, 1917 Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky, minister-chairman of the Provisional Government, entered the Winter Palace with his staff and security. This choice was not accidental - for self-affirmation he needed the former royal residence.