With exhibitions spanning nearly 720,000 square feet, Russia’s State Hermitage Museum is home to one of the largest known art collections. But the museum, which first opened its St. Petersburg doors ...

Temperatures rose to unseasonable highs throughout Russia last week. In Moscow, city-dwellers welcomed the reprieve from the cold, casting off their heavy coats and delighting in the sound of singing ...

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 ...

Even during her glory years, Empress Maria Alexandrovna was something like a ghost walking the halls of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. As frail as she was beautiful, the haunting royal often ...

Its blend of traditional Russian architecture and Western European ... The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost ...

Western partners have been helping Ukraine rebuild. "It is the middle of the winter, and Russia's goal remains unchanged: our energy infrastructure," Zelenskyy said on Telegram. He urged Western ...

Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power, promising the Russian people a dictatorship of the proletariat and a new era of classless equality ...

The Ukrainian national Olympic committee announced Sunday that a Russian mass attack on the city of Kharkiv destroyed a sports complex that was home to multiple hockey teams. A Russian mass attack ...

1917 Bolshevik revolutionaries storm the Winter Palace and seize control of power from the Provisional Government March 3, 1918 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, withdrawing Russia from the First ...