- 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 contains 1,786 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,057 rooms, and 117 staircases. More than 4,000 masons, plasterers, modelers, and painters...Bulunamadı: i
- 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...
- The construction of the magnificent Winter Palace began in 1754 in the management of Russian King Peter I or also known as Peter the Great.
- 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 first Winter Palace, designed in 1711 for Peter the Great, by Domenico Trezzini who, 16 years later, was to design the third Winter Palace.
- 400 rubles - ticket for citizens of Belarus and the Russian Federation in the Winter Palace, the General Staff and the Winter Palace of Peter the Great
- 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.