So when it was engulfed by a fire that toppled its spire, it seemed as ... the Winter Palace was among the world's grandest buildings. The Russian poet Vasilii Zhukovskii wrote that the palace ...

In 1703, reform-minded Czar Peter the Great moved Russia’s capital from Moscow ... thanks to the city’s newfound oil wealth, its baroque palaces are no longer surrounded by heartbreakingly ...

Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science Warsaw. Nagy Gyula/FORTEPAN (CC BY-SA 3.0); Pannini (CC0 1.0) This 187-meter-tall building (or 270 meters if you count the spire) was built according to Soviet ...

David Burdeny was doing research on Baroque and Rococo interiors when he came across an article on Russian palaces titled “Palaces for the People.” It turned out not to be about palaces at all ...

It is surprisingly hard to tell the difference between photos of Moscow's metro stations and photos of Russia's historic palaces. The stations, like the palaces, are supremely decadent ...

A Reuters investigation found that even the president himself owns a luxury estate near the Black Sea dubbed "Putin's Palace", an allegation he denies. "All Russian power structures are united in ...

The Romanovs left behind a legacy of palaces and residences throughout Russia that in the following years continued to live storied and unusual lives. Take your own self-guided tour to these ...

If St. Petersburg amazes tourists with its spectacular western-style palaces, Moscow can offer more traditionally Russian ones, which you won’t find anywhere outside the country. The Grand ...

So when it was engulfed by a fire that toppled its spire, it seemed as ... the Winter Palace was among the world’s grandest buildings. The Russian poet Vasilii Zhukovskii wrote that the palace ...