The end of World War I in 1918 brought about many changes in the traditional social structure of some major European ...

(It was called Leningrad from 1924 until 1991 ... the 18th-century Baroque masterpiece known as the Winter Palace, destined to house the Hermitage Museum; churches that range from massive ...

Later known as Leningrad (in the former USSR), the city is closely associated with the October Revolution. Its architectural heritage reconciles the very different Baroque and pure neoclassical styles ...

The Winter Palace is widely believed to have suffered ... The cradle of the Russian Revolution, St Petersburg, was renamed Leningrad in his honour. Lenin taught generations of Soviet children ...

Leningrad under siege was a pitiless place. Two in five people succumbed in the first winter and the streets were littered with ... housed in a former palace. By 1933, the collection was ‘unrivalled ...

Yet unbeknown to many of Leningrad’s citizens, the world’s first and largest seed bank was situated in the middle of the city, just off St Isaac’s Square. The converted palace building held ...

Rumblings of their approach soon reached Leningrad (now St. Petersburg ... the amber panels assembled in Neva Enfilade of the Winter Palace at the discretion of sculptor Alexander Martelli.

The Leningrad première of “Porgy and Bess ... The Hermitage is part of the Winter Palace, which in recent years has been repainted its imperial color—a frosty chartreuse-vert.

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh 'The ... intense struggle for life against the brutal winter and starvation. With poetic and vivid descriptions, the novel immerses readers in the historical reality ...

Last winter, as he listened to the roar of German artillery and watched the sputtering of German incendiaries from the roof of Leningrad ... of Petrograd’s Winter Palace.

Kim Jong Un's demolition of buildings at his winter palace estate, observed through satellite images, suggests potential military use. The action coincides with reports on advanced rocket ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly demolished several buildings on his winter palace’s estate in an “unusual move” which may signal an expansion of the country’s military ...