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In 1764 Catherine commissioned Yury Velten to build an extension to the east of the Winter Palace, completed in 1766.

Later it became the Southern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage.

In 1767 – 1769 French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe built the Northern.

The museum is the 86th most notable in the world.

Pavilion on the Neva embankment.

In 1767 – 1775 the extensions were connected to each other by galleries, where Catherine put her collections.

The entire neoclassical building is now known as the Small Hermitage.

At the time of Catherine the Hermitage wasn't a public museum, very few people were allowed within.