winter palace

     

Locate between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, the Winter Palace or Zimniy Dvorets (Russian: Зимний дворец) in Saint Petersburg, Russia was built between 1754 and 1762 as the winter residence of the Russian tsars.

Trivia about winter palace

  • Russian revolutionaries stormed it in November 1917
  • Seen here is where the czars used to hang their fur hats
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Imperial Palace in Vienna.) Monarchs don't like being cooped up in the same 150 rooms all year, so the Habsburg was only this seasonal palace, like a famous one in St. Petersburg

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