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 ...

Those with a deep interest in Russian history find the palace especially ... The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for ...

Wotton Auction Rooms 'Bolsheviks Storming the Winter Palace' is one of the large paintings for sale As well as the life-size portrait of Lenin, there is a scene of 'Bolsheviks Storming the Winter ...

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 ...

Thanks to another Russian empress, the museum has something else to offer: cats. Years after Catherine turned the Winter Palace into the palatial museum it is today, the empress Elizabeth I ...