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Winter Palace: Then and Now

Main residence of the Russian emperors, built in 1754–1762; stormed in the October Revolution of 1917 and now part of the Hermitage Museum.

Historical view
Winter Palace, historical view
Photochrom of the Winter Palace (c. 1905). Photoglob Co., publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Winter Palace, today
Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayRussia
StatusStanding
Date1762
Nearest city on the mapNovgorod (about 167 km)
Location59.941° N, 30.314° E
Map showing Winter Palace in 1700Winter Palace
Border map for 1700. See Europe in 1700.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–799Unclaimed / no data
800–899Rus' Khaganate
900–1099Kievan Rus'
1100–1199Kievan Rus'
1200–1299Principality of Novgorod
1300–1491Novgorod
1492–1499Grand Duchy of Moscow
1500–1599Kalmar Union
1600–1782Sweden
1783–1919Russian Empire
1920–1929USSR
1930–1937White Russia
1938–1993USSR
1994–todayRussia

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