The Romanovs' last palace was built for Nicholas II in Livadia in 1911, although it must be noted that he only managed to visit it four times. Naturally, Livadia could not compete with the Winter ...

Many Romanov palaces, including the Winter and Catherine, were restored and turned into museums during Soviet rule. But the Alexander Palace remained closed to the public despite the fact it had ...

The Romanovs were always surrounded by intrigue ... Look at how Russian cz ars saw the Winter Palace. Apart from the Winter Palace, there are more than 50 Imperial mansions located in St ...

into the Third Section [the Czar’s secret police], and even into the Winter Palace.” – Sergei Nechaev, Catechism of a Revolutionary During the 300 years that the Romanov dynasty had held ...

Except for the narrator, nearly all the main characters in "The Winter Palace" are imaginative re ... she hopes, another Romanov successor. Although she is expected to function as little more ...

at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace, wedding bells rang for members of the Romanov family in Russia, for Grand Duke George and his bride Victoria, the daughter of an Italian diplomat.

Even the Soviets had a Romanov thing: six decades after murdering ... (he tracked down the makers of wallpaper used in the Winter Palace) and accounts of how various princes and princesses lived ...

After the war, the palace was briefly made into a museum again before being turned over to the Soviet navy in the 1950s, which used it as a headquarters and academy until the 1990s. Many Romanov ...