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 ...

Russia was ill-prepared for war against a ... Soldiers tasked with guarding the provisional government inside the Winter Palace days before it was stormed by soldiers and sailors fighting on ...

Its blend of traditional Russian architecture and Western European ... The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost ...

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 ...

1917 Bolshevik revolutionaries storm the Winter Palace and seize control of power from the Provisional Government March 3, 1918 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, withdrawing Russia from the First ...

Thanks to another Russian empress, the museum has something else to offer: cats. Years after Catherine turned the Winter ...