Stretched majestically along the Neva River in St. Petersburg, the Winter Palace remains one of the top tourist attractions in all Russia, drawing tens of thousands to see its priceless collections of ...
Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FICTION: INSIDE THE RUSSIAN COURT The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak (Bantam) Catherine the Great, the much-mythologized ...