Winter Palace
Baroque residence of fifteen hundred rooms, once an imperial seat, now home to a vast art museum.
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This guide to the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg follows Stepan Khalturin, a carpenter who spent months smuggling dynamite into a cellar room two floors beneath the palace dining hall in 1880. Planted by the underground group People's Will, he timed the blast for the evening Tsar Alexander II was due to dine with a visiting prince from Hesse. Look up at the pale green facade, a floor above that forgotten cellar room.
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