Winter Palace,( St. Petersburg, Russia); 1721-62; Elizabethan Baroque
Winter Palace is a landmark of St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded in 1721-1762, and is a Baroque architecture. From the beginning to the end of the Romanov Dynasty in 1917, it was the palace of the Russian monarchs. The Winter Palace also has the duality of being the property of the royal museum as early as during the reign of Peter the Great, Queen Elizabeth Petrovna, the earliest restoration of the Queen Elizabeth, and the largest Queen of Hermitage. The Hermitage Museum was opened to the public in 1852. And it finished its’ historical mission of residence of the Russian monarchs in when Nicolas II resigned in 1917. The first imperial palace of the Winter Palace was built for Peter the Great and his family. The first style of the place is Dutch-style wooden house. Then it was replaced by a stone building (the basis of the Hermitage Theater) in 1711. Empress Anna Johnnafnah is the first one of Peter's family to rebuild and redesign the palace. She entrusted the a...