Winter Palace (rus)

Winter Palace

Winter Palace ranks 2,276th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Southend-on-Sea, Tonbridge, and Fayetteville, North Carolina. Memorable people born in Winter Palace include Alexander III of Russia, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, and Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia. Memorable people who died in Winter Palace include Catherine the Great, Nicholas I of Russia, and Alexander II of Russia. Winter Palace has been the birth place of many politicians, and noblemen and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Winter Palace is located in Russia.

The Winter Palace is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the House of Romanov, previous emperors, from 1732 to 1917. The palace and its precincts now house the Hermitage Museum. The floor area is 233,345 square metres. The total area of the Winter Palace is 14.2 hectares. Situated between Palace Embankment and Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917, as depicted in Soviet art and in Sergei Eisenstein's 1928 film October, became a symbol of the October Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia