Hermitage Museum - Winter Palace, Soviet Sale of Hermitage Paintings, Hermitage Volunteer Service, Hermitage Amsterdam (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Winter Palace, Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings, Hermitage Volunteer Service, Hermitage Amsterdam, Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Grand Church of the Winter Palace, Marble Palace, Egyptian Collection of the Hermitage Museum, St George's Hall and Apollo Room of the Winter Palace, Summer Garden, Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, Arabian Hall of the Winter Palace, Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace, Hermitage Theatre, Palace Embankment, Hermitage Rooms, Gardens of the Winter Palace, Malachite Room of the Winter Palace, Menshikov Palace, Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace, General Staff Building, Armorial Hall of the Winter Palace, Field Marshals' Hall of the Winter Palace, White Hall of the Winter Palace, Gold Drawing Room of the Winter Palace, Rotunda of the Winter Palace, Alexander Hall of the Winter Palace. Excerpt: The Winter Palace (Russian: ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian monarchs. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the 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 became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution. The palace was constructed on a monumental scale that was intended to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. From the palace, the Tsar ruled over 22,400,000 square kilometres (8,600,000 sq mi) (almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass) and over 125 million subjects by the end of the 1800s. It was designed by many architects, most notably Bartolomeo Rastrelli, in what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. The green-and-white palace has the shape of an elongated...