• 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.
  • The partially preserved Winter Palace of Peter the Great beneath the Hermitage Theatre. Reconstruction of Peter the Great's workshops in St Petersburg, Russia.
  • From this, a rather tragic chain of events began, which leads us to the current Winter Palace of Peter I, which so little resembles the original house of the ruling...
  • Popular mentions. winter palace. visiting st. architecture. ... Winter Palace of Peter I gives you the best impression of how the czar family lived.
  • 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...
  • ...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...
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • About fifty cats call Winter Palace home, all descendants of a Dutch cat of Peter the Great. Their primary role is to protect the Winter Palace from mice.
  • The Winter Palace served as the residence of Peter the Great, and is also known for being the home of the famous Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
  • The building of the Hermitage Theater (the Winter Palace of Peter I) is a monument of Russian classicism architecture of the late 18th century.
  • 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...