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 ...

A sumptuous palace-like structure with Art Nouveau details ... along with culinary indulgences--this being Russia you'll find plenty of caviar and vodka on the menu. No trip to Russia is complete ...

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 ...

Source: The State Russian museum, St. Petersburg ... Costume ball in the Winter Palace, 1903 "While we danced," remembered the last great tsar, Alexander Mikhailovich, "riots were going on ...

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 ...

Exactly a century after the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace, the effects of the Russian Revolution still reverberate. Steve Rosenberg reports from four Russian cities where its legacy is ...

Russian soldier attempting to stop comrades ... post and telegraph office and swiftly and successfully stormed the Winter Palace (the government's residence). Kerensky fled the city and the ...

Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune, was known as America's wealthiest woman when she purchased ...

Exactly a century after the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace, the effects of the Russian Revolution still reverberate. Steve Rosenberg reports from four Russian cities where its legacy is ...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has launched “counter-offensive actions” in its Kursk region to dislodge ...

a surprise in European winter. But 1709 was no ordinary cold snap. Dawn broke the next morning on a continent that had frozen over from Italy to Scandinavia and from England to Russia, and would ...

The Ukrainian national Olympic committee announced Sunday that a Russian mass attack on the city of Kharkiv destroyed a sports complex that was home to multiple hockey teams. A Russian mass attack ...