The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost 200 years. It finally opened to the public in 1852, and since then has been ...
The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost 200 years. It finally opened to the public in 1852, and since then has been ...
With exhibitions spanning nearly 720,000 square feet, Russia’s State Hermitage Museum ... in total—prompted the empress to expand the Winter Palace, a building significant in its own right ...
1917 Bolshevik revolutionaries storm the Winter Palace and seize control of power from the Provisional Government March 3, 1918 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, withdrawing Russia from the First ...
The Tsar's armies have grown increasingly demoralized and disaffected fighting in the First World War: Russia has been bleeding ... Lenin's Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power ...