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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...