Thanks to another Russian empress, the museum has something else ... Now, hundreds of years later, at least 50 cats remain ...
The Russian city was ... Achilles, a blue-eyed cat with white fur, from the Hermitage, began his career as an oracle in 2017 during the Confederations Cup. The museum staff chose him out of ...
Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...
Hermitage oracle cat to predict outcome of Russia vs Saudi Arabia World Cup ... In 2015, the British press put the Hermitage Museum’s cats on the list of the world’s most unusual tourist ...