The magazine is among the best periodicals in the sphere of culture and art in Russia and abroad. It has received several awards in major international competitions and is represented in the world’s most important venues of contemporary art.
The main topics of the new issue are the history of collaboration between the State Hermitage and museums in Poland, the exhibition “Catherine the Great and Stanislaw August”, the Iranian congress and the travels of Ibn-Battuta, “Gothic”– a Hermitage project for the 56th Venice Biennale, the Hermitage's “Spanish” collection and the exhibition of Spanish artists in Amsterdam, the main Hermitage exhibitions and exhibitions abroad with participation from the Hermitage in 2015.