• The first Winter Palace, designed in 1711 for Peter the Great, by Domenico Trezzini who, 16 years later, was to design the third Winter Palace.
  • So Peter ordered all his nobles to build residences at his Winter Palace, legally the aristocrats also had to spend about half a year in St. Petersburg.
  • Opening of the Winter Palace of Peter I in the 20th century. Premises and interiors. Opening hours and ticket prices. Where is the palace and how to get there.
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  • The building of the Hermitage Theater (the Winter Palace of Peter I) is a monument of Russian classicism architecture of the late 18th century.
  • The partially preserved Winter Palace of Peter the Great beneath the Hermitage Theatre. Reconstruction of Peter the Great's workshops in St Petersburg, Russia.
  • 300 Rubles - entry ticket to one of the Hermitage branches (Winter Palace of Peter the Great, Menshikov Palace, the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory...
  • ...of the Tsar’s family, in 1716 Peter I ordered Georg Johann Mattarnovy to build a new, suitably impressive, stone palace, known as the Second Winter Palace...
  • ...Peter’s descendants to reconstruct the [predecessor residences on the site – the first Imperial residence on the site of the Winter Palace was a wooden house...
  • For 155 years the Winter Palace had been used as the main residence of the Russian royal family, starting with the Emperor Peter the 3rd and lasting until the...
  • After Peter II died, the Duchess of Courland and niece to Peter I, Anna Ivanovna, inherited the throne. She re-instated the Imperial Court in the Winter Palace...
  • ...of Peter the Great, including a large fragment of the former state courtyard, as well as several suites of palace apartments. ... 8. Winter Palace. 0.22 MILES.
  • history of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, as well as many other buildings in the city, begins during the reign of Tsar Peter I. In 1711, the king built a sort of...