The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost 200 years. It finally opened to the public in 1852, and since then has been ...

Its blend of traditional Russian architecture and Western European ... The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost ...

Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power, promising the Russian people a dictatorship of the proletariat and a new era of classless equality ...