Simple search.

Type your query in the search field in the upper right corner on all pages of the WEB-site and click "Search" button or «Enter» key on the keyboard.

For more accurate search results, you can use the following characters:

*
Place a wildcard character (*) anywhere in, before, or after a term or a field to indicate that the document can contain any word that matches any of the possible combinations. A term with a wildcard character is interpreted as equivalent to an OR of all its applicable expansions.

Query: app*

Result: This query finds documents that include the terms apple, apples, application, and so on because these words begin with app.

?
Replace a character in a term with the question mark (?) wildcard character to find terms that match all other characters in the term.

Query: m?re

Result: This query returns documents that contain the terms mare, mere, mire, and more.

“ ”
Use double quotation marks (“) to indicate that a document must contain the exact phrase within the double quotation marks for a match to occur. Words inside phrases are never lemmatized. You can also add wildcard characters (* or ?) within phrases. The wildcard character muse be next to a letter or word.

Query: “First World War”

Result: This query finds documents that include the exact phrase First World War.

Advanced Search.

To search for items in the collection of the Hermitage, you can use additional search fields.