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cats
One day to Empress Elizabeth Petrovna came rumors that in Kazan moved mice and rats. Having learned that all this was due to local cats, she issued a "Decree on the expulsion to the yard of cats". In the building of the Hermitage, the cats moved together with Catherine II and became "guards of painting galleries".

Since the 18th century, all the four-legged museum workers who entered the service are entered in the special Book of the accounting of palace cats and for 200 years have kept information about the names of all the furry colleagues, their customs and histories of their arrival in the Hermitage.
Currently, more than 50 cats live in the basements of the St. Petersburg Hermitage. Each cat is named by the museum staff. They are considered full-fledged employees of the museum. Their duties include catching rats and charging two-legged colleagues with a good mood. Museum officials call the cats “ermites.” After several years of work, Ermites retires.

The State Hermitage periodically distributes kittens that were born in the walls of the museum. Important conditions for future owners are to be adult and to have their own, not rented housing. They are given a test period of one month to get used to each other. Do you know what the owner gets with a new pet? Certificate of owner of hermitage cat and the right to a lifetime free visit to the State Hermitage.