- 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...
- The first Imperial residence on the site of the Winter Palace was a wooden house in the Dutch style built in 1708 for Peter the Great and his family.
- (The palace is adjacent to the site of Peter the Great’s original Winter Palace, built in 1708, which is now the site of the Hermitage Theatre.)
- 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...
- Initially, Peter I settled in a one-story house built in 1703 not far from the Peter and Paul Fortress. First Winter Palace - Wedding Chambers of Peter I.
- 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 first Winter Palace, designed in 1711 for Peter the Great, by Domenico Trezzini who, 16 years later, was to design the third Winter Palace.
- What an honour. It wasn’t until 1992, that the famous ‘Winter Palace of Peter I’ opened on display in the Hermitage Theatre.
- Similar territories were reserved for upper class sailors. The site on which the Winter Palace is located today was taken under the control of Peter I.