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.

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With Tsar Nicholas away at the front commanding Russia's war effort, the capital, St. Petersburg (then called ... provisional government inside the Winter Palace days before it was stormed by ...

the Winter Palace, the czars, Dostoyevsky, the Catherine Palace, Tchaikovsky, Lenin. As the former official—some still say cultural—capital, St. Petersburg is the most westernized of Russia's ...

A fabulous cache of Impressionist and other paintings, hidden for 50 years, is surfacing in a new exhibit at the Hermitage, Russia's museum of the czars in St ... the Winter Palace of the Romanov ...

Stop by the area's Russian Museum ... of the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Winter Palace. The east side of the island is also home to St. Petersburg State University.

MOSCOW, June 13. /TASS/. The restoration of the Chinese Palace in the Peterhof Museum-Reserve in St. Petersburg has been completed after 20 years, Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova said.