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 ...

Marvel at the grandeur of the Winter Palace, the golden domes of St. Isaac ... Experience the elegance and cultural richness of Russia’s imperial city from an unforgettable aerial perspective!

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 ...

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 ...

For more information, visit the Gardens of Russian Museum website ... museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost 200 years.