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The Greek Courtyard is one of the largest and most beautiful halls of the Pushkin Museum. It contains casts of the surviving statues and reliefs of the Parthenon, the famous portico of the Erechtheion temple in life size, the portico of the Temple of Hephaestus on the Athenian Agora - a market square, a model of the Athenian Acropolis and much more. The history of art is the study of not only the monument itself, but also its context - its origin, existence and influence. And in this sense, the Greek Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum is an ideal place. Why should the study of art history begin with Ancient Greece? Elizaveta Likhacheva, director of the Pushkin Museum, tells us.