• View of the Winter Palace of Peter I.’ was created in 1716 by Alexey Zubov in Baroque style.
  • It was long assumed that Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, built by Mattarnovi and Trezzini and completed in 1720, had been completely destroyed to make...
  • The building of the Hermitage Theater (the Winter Palace of Peter I) is a monument of Russian classicism architecture of the late 18th century.
  • ...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...
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • Peter the Great’s aspirations for the Winter Palace were not to rival Versailles in size or splendor—that honor would fall to the Peterhof Palace—but to build a...
  • The Winter Palace of Peter I is the building next to it, on the opposite side of the Winter Canal next to the New Hermitage.
  • The first Winter Palace was constructed in 1708 for Peter I. Three years later the small wooden building was replaced by a stone palace.
  • 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...
  • Winter Palace Of Peter I. Last Updated on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 | St Petersburg. @ 571 8446; www.hermitagemuseum.org; Dvortsovaya nab 32; adult/student R200/100...
  • What to see. Despite the frequent attacks including the Red Army attack in 1917, the Winter Palace has not lost its grandeur by any means.