Take a tour of the hermitage gold room with a hermitage curator the gold room has a spectacular collection of gold silver and royal jewels that belonged to the russian tsars it has the best and biggest collection of scynthian gold in the world famous ancient grecian gold oriental jewelry from india iran and china as well as some superb examples of ceremonial oriental weapons the collection consists of around 1 500 works made from gold and dating from the 7th century bc to the 19th cen