For the brilliant, ruthless, generous and visionary empress, art and culture were tools both to charm Europe, with the scope ...

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 ...

Built in the 1750s, the Winter Palace currently houses part of the ... is still reportedly an issue in Russia, as is discrimination against LGBTQ individuals. Government officials warn against ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...