The Winter Palace, located on the banks of the Neva River, is the largest and most distinctive Baroque building in St. Petersburg.

It was originally the palace of the Russian Tsar and after the October Revolution it became part of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. It is one of the four largest museums in the world, along with the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The entire palace is magnificent, and its interior is luxurious and noble. It houses artworks from all over the world, including oil paintings, statues, carpets, furniture, handicrafts, etc. It is reported that the Winter Palace has 400 exhibition halls and showrooms, with 2.7 million works of art from ancient times to the present. Among them, the most popular ones are: ✅ Egyptian mummies (exhibition hall No. 100) ✅ Peacock Bell (204) ✅ Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna (214) ✅ Rembrandt's "The Return of the Prodigal Son" (254) …… ▫️▫️▫️▫️ ⓘ ⓝ ⓕ ⓞ ▫️▫️▫️▫️ 🧩: Государственный Эрмитаж 📍: Palace Square, 2, Sankt-Peterburg 🕰️: Closed on Mondays. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday 11:00-20:00 Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 11:00-18:00 💰: Buy tickets online for 64 yuan, or you can buy them at the machine at the entrance of the Winter Palace.