• 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.
  • View of the Winter Palace of Peter I.’ was created in 1716 by Alexey Zubov in Baroque style.
  • 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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  • ...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...
  • Several “winterpalaces were built in the 18th century and the present one is the fifth of its kind. Two “winterpalaces were erected under Peter the Great.
  • The partially preserved Winter Palace of Peter the Great beneath the Hermitage Theatre. Reconstruction of Peter the Great's workshops in St Petersburg, Russia.
  • The building of the Hermitage Theater (the Winter Palace of Peter I) is a monument of Russian classicism architecture of the late 18th century.
  • It seems that Peter soon tired of the first palace, for in 1721, the second version of the Winter Palace was built under the direction of architect Georg Mattarnovy.
  • Built by Peter the Great and glorified by Catherine II, the historic Winter Palace came to inspire decadent art, but also, the class resentment that would change...