Baldin Collection
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The Baldin Collection is a group of 364 masterpieces removed from Germany to the Soviet Union by Soviet Army officer Victor Baldin at the end of World War II. The ensemble consists of 362 drawings and
Cypresses in Starry Night (F 1540, JH 1732) by Vincent van Gogh (1889). The only known pen and ink study of The Starry Night and one of the most famous pieces in the "Baldin Collection".
The Kunsthalle in Bremen, Germany
Frauenbad by Albrecht Dürer (1496). Not part of the Baldin Collection itself, but taken by the same military unit from the same storage vaults at Karnzow Castle
Nikolai Gubenko in 2005
Hermitage Museum
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The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the largest collection of paintings in the world. It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Gre
Baldin Collection
…local German population. The works Baldin took were then hidden at a Soviet research institute for many years. In 1991 the collection was moved to the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg where its existence was revealed to the world in 1992. It remains there today. Since then the Baldin Collection has been regarded…
View of (from left) the Hermitage Theatre, Old Hermitage, and Small Hermitage
The Hermitage Museum complex. From left to right: Hermitage Theatre – Old Hermitage – Small Hermitage – Winter Palace (the "New Hermitage" is situated behind the Old Hermitage)
Egyptian Hall
The Pavilion Hall