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Winter Palace

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The Winter Palace through the Ages

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The Winter Palace of Peter the Great

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🐪 "OUR VINTAGE EGYPTIAN ADVENTURE" (Part 2) The Winter Palace Hotel, Luxor. 🐪

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Storming the Winter Palace (1920)

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12 HOURS IN THE WINTER PALACE + HERMITAGE MUSEUM | Saint Petersburg, Russia

The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian monarchs. Today, the restored palace forms part of a complex of buildings housing the Hermitage Museum. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917 as depicted in Soviet paintings and Eisenstein's 1927 film October became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
  • Peter the Great's Winter Palace (1711–1753) 

  • The palace 1725–1855 

  • Architecture 

  • Usage of the palace 

  • The last Tsars (1855–1905) 

  • The Seat of the Provisional Government (1917) 

  • New regime