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Rare colour auto-chrome of the Ballroom in the Catherine Palace as it looked in 1917. Photo: Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Preserve Source

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 Palisander Drawing Room. The Alexander (Alexandrovsky) Palace - generally considered the favorite home of the last Imperial family of Russia, and where they spent the first five months of their captivity after the start of the Revolution - was commissioned by Catherine the Great for her favorite grandson, the future Alexander I, on the occasion of his marriage. It was built to the design of Giacomo Quarenghi and constructed between 1792 and 1796. After his accession in 1801, Alexander…

Explore the haunting last photos of the Romanov family, capturing the family's final days. Delve into the mystery and tragedy that still fascinates the public today.

Emperor Nikolai I decreed that Russian artist Eduard Gau start painting watercolors of the Winter Palace’s interior (the Russian Empire's...

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