The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost 200 years. It finally opened to the public in 1852, and since then has been ...

Stretched majestically along the Neva River in St. Petersburg, the Winter Palace remains one of the top tourist attractions in all Russia, drawing tens of thousands to see its priceless ...

In one of them - the Farm Palace - the first elevator in Russia was installed. The main residence of the Russian Emperors, the Winter Palace impresses by its sheer vastness. It has 1,057 rooms ...

Standing in the heart of the Russian capital, with 60,000 square meters of floor space and 1,500 rooms, the Winter Palace was among the world's grandest buildings. The Russian poet Vasilii ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. A century ago, the radical Bolshevik party captured Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), thus ...

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Russia’s allies in World War I ... marched to Saint Petersburg’s Winter Palace calling for higher wages, safer factories and a shorter workday. Nicholas, who had been in power for a little ...

Russian revolutionaries ran their bayonets through it in 1917 when they seized the Winter Palace in Petrograd - as St Petersburg was then known - a sign of their hatred for the old Russia they ...

Standing in the heart of the Russian capital, with 60,000 square meters of floor space and 1,500 rooms, the Winter Palace was among the world’s grandest buildings. The Russian poet Vasilii ...