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Excerpt from St. Petersburg: Critical Notes on the Hermitage In giving the relative rank of pictures, a system of starring has been followed. Mention without a star indicates a picture of merit, otherwise it would not have been selected from the given collection at all. One star means a picture of more than average importance, whether it be by a great or by a medi ocre painter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.