𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹 -

An obscure academic history of Georgian-era garden ornamentation of the 'hermitage' and what remains of this curious historical obsession; reading it for the 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘴 podcast, but to what uses I will put it I won't here say!

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords-podcast/

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #history #hermitage

From this day in 2017 when we visited the State Hermitage museum in St Petersburg, Russia, here's the Benois Madonna by Leonardo da Vinci, probably painted around 1480 CE and likely da Vinci's first independent artwork.

#Photography #Travel #Russia #StPetersburg #SaintPetersburg #Museum #Hermitage #HermitageMuseum #StateHermitage #Art #DaVinci #LeonardoDaVinci #Painting

Trees at the Hermitage. One of the tallest trees in Britain used to be here, a 61m (200ft) Douglas Fir, but it came down in winds in 2017. Still quite a lot of big ones though...

#Perthshire #Scotland #Hermitage #Trees

An Evening of M. Chapoutier Wines at L'Abbatoir For @VanWineFest 2026.
@m_chapoutier @dandurandwinespirits #Marsanne #Syrah #Hermitage #winewriter

https://mywinepal.com/2026/03/16/an-evening-of-m-chapoutier-wines-at-labbatoir-for-vanwinefest-2026/

For #DoorsDay here's an ornate, 15th century door created by a Dutch artist located in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, a quite fabulous museum to which we're sadly never likely going to be able to make a return visit.

#Photography #Door #Architecture #Travel #StPetersburg #Russia #SaintPetersburg #Hermitage #HermitageMuseum #Museum