- 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.
- Constructed on a scale intended to reflect the power of Imperial Russia, the Winter Palace is a monumentally giant building.Bulunamadı: 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...
- ...Peter the 1st. While the palace was being built, her royal highness Elizabeth and her court inhabited a wooden version of the Winter Palace located nearby.
- St. Petersburg is Russia's cultural capital. Take a look at the best attraction in St. Petersburg, the Winter Palace. Read when to visit, entry fee & more.
- The Winter Palace at Saint Petersburg, Russia is truly a house of many faces. On one hand, it is the symbol for Imperial tyranny. Built by Peter the Great and...
- The Winter Palace of Peter I is home for the world known arts. ... A splendid lavish palace the city founder Peter the Great built as his winter residence.
- 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.
- (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.)