- 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...
- 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...
- The first Winter Palace was constructed in 1708 for Peter I . Three years later the small wooden building was replaced by a stone palace.
- 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.
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- 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 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.
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