State Hermitage Museum

This guide to the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg centers on a June morning in 1985, when a man named Bronius Maigys walked up to Rembrandt's Danae with a jar of sulfuric acid and a knife. Guards dragged him away before he could do more, and he later called the attack a political act. The painting hangs inside the palace Catherine the Great built as her own private retreat.