The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home ... is the main reason some travelers visit St. Petersburg in the first place.

One of the most opulent sites on Earth, the Hermitage includes the Winter Palace of the Romanov czars ... Peter the Great and the founding of St. Petersburg in 1703 as "a window on Europe ...

A demonstration in St. Petersburg in May ... Soldiers tasked with guarding the provisional government inside the Winter Palace days before it was stormed by soldiers and sailors fighting on ...

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Years after Catherine turned the Winter Palace into the palatial museum it ... nearly 1,000 miles southeast of St. Petersburg ...

Flush with canals and built around water – the city curves around the Gulf of Finland, and the Neva River runs through the city center – St. Petersburg is a planned city that originated with ...