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1 day ago · The Winter Palace. Prior to the fall of the Romanov family, the Winter Palace served as their official residence. Located in St. Petersburg between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, the ...
4 days ago · The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg stands as a testament to imperial Russian architecture. Serving as the official residence of the House of Romanov from 1732 to 1917, this colossal edifice is now home to the Hermitage Museum.
Jun 26, 2024 · St. Petersburg, city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. It is a major historical and cultural center, as well as Russia’s second largest city. For two centuries (1712–1918) it was the capital of the Russian Empire. Its historic district was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1990.
Jun 26, 2024 · Opposite the Admiralty and Winter Palace, at the island’s eastern tip, is the remarkable architectural complex known as the Strelka (“Pointer”), facing the bifurcation of the Neva.
2 days ago · Peter I ([ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich,; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.
Jun 18, 2024 · The Winter Palace burns down. And the government launches, in no particular order, a publishing program for provincial newspapers, Orthodox conversions in Poland, preparations for an assault on Khiva, a new railroad to connect St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo, and a new ministry to oversee state peasants and properties.
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Jun 14, 2024 · These efforts, coordinated by the Union of Liberation, culminated in the massacre of peaceful demonstrators in the square before the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, on Bloody Sunday (January 9 [January 22, New Style], 1905). (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.)
