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 ...

One of the most opulent sites on Earth, the Hermitage includes the Winter Palace of the Romanov czars ... 1703 as "a window on Europe" for Mother Russia. By 1783, Catherine the Great had purchased ...

Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power, promising the Russian people a dictatorship of the proletariat and a new era of classless equality ...

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 ...

Near the Russian Museum in the Admiralteysky District ... The island offers unrivaled views of the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Winter Palace. The east side of the island is also home ...

The Winter Carnival, which runs through Sunday, Feb. 9, promises a week of fun and frosty festivities for all ages. READ MORE ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a “Palace of bones” made from the ancient remains of over 60 woolly mammoths in an archaeological site in Russia ... throughout the winter – rare in this ...