Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg photo copyrighted by: Galen R. Frysinger Gradually imperial collections were enriched by relics of Greek and Scythian culture, unearthed during excavations on Pereshchepina, Pazyryk, and other ancient burial mounds in southern Russia. In the 1920s and 1930s the new socialist government "nationalized" many extensive private collections into the Hermitage.
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