23 Facts About Winter Palace

The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases.

Winter Palace was not the only palace in the unfinished city, or even the most splendid, as Peter had ordered his nobles to construct stone built residences and to spend half the year there.

Winter Palace in turn was succeeded by Peter I's grandson Peter II, who in 1727 had Mattarnovy's palace greatly enlarged by the architect Domenico Trezzini.

In 1728, shortly after the third palace was completed, the Imperial Court left Saint Petersburg for Moscow, and the Winter Palace lost its status as the principal imperial residence.

Winter Palace designed new liveries for her servants and, on her orders, mead and vodka were replaced with champagne and Burgundy.

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Winter Palace instructed the Boyars to replace their plain furniture with that of mahogany and ebony, while her own tastes in interior decoration ran to a dressing table of solid gold and an "easing stool" of silver, studded with rubies.

This, the fourth version of the Winter Palace, was to be an ongoing project for the architect Rastrelli throughout the reign of the Empress Anna.

The new Empress Elizabeth, whose main residence was the Summer Palace, led the court at the Winter Palace to be described later by the Russian historian Vasily Klyuchevsky as a place of "gilded squalor".

Winter Palace was not presenting her son as the new and rightful ruler of Russia, however; that honour she was usurping herself.

The Winter Palace was to serve as a model for numerous Russian palaces belonging to Catherine's aristocracy, all of them, like the Winter Palace itself, built by the slave labour of Russian serfs.

The sophistication and manners observed inside the Winter Palace were greatly at odds with the grim reality of life outside its externally gilded walls.

In 1767, as the Winter Palace grew in richness and splendour, the Empress published an edict extending Russian serfdom.

Catherine the Great was succeeded by her son Paul I In the first days of his reign, the new Tsar augmented the number of troops stationed at the Winter Palace, positioning sentry boxes every few metres around the building.

Winter Palace was murdered there three weeks after taking up residence in 1801.

Winter Palace is said to contain 1,500 rooms, 1,786 doors and 1,945 windows.

Winter Palace transformed the original enfilade of five state rooms into a suite of three vast halls, decorated with faux marble columns, bas-reliefs and statuary.

Winter Palace was an official residence of the Russian sovereign from 1732 until 1917; however, it was their home for little more than 140 of those years.

The Tsar was highly interested in the running costs of the Winter Palace, insisting that table linen was not to be changed daily, and that candles and soap were not replaced until completely spent.

Winter Palace had found it disconcerting that the public could stare into her windows.

The Tsar and Empress declined to hold a celebratory ball at the Winter Palace, instead holding two small receptions, both of which the Empress failed to attend.

The Tsar and Empress briefly returned to the Winter Palace to stand on their balcony to accept salutes and homage from the departing troops.

Winter Palace's troops managed to capture Tsarskoe Selo, but were beaten the next day at Pulkovo.

The Storming of the Winter Palace was a historical reenactment organised by the Bolsheviks on the 3rd anniversary in 1920.