The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg was designed in the exuberant Elizabethan Baroque style by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli for Empress Elizabeth, with the work taking several years and completed only after her death. For generations it served as the main residence of the Russian emperors, standing on the Neva beside Palace Square, where troops fired on a peaceful crowd in the Bloody Sunday of 1905. A fire in 1837 gutted the interior, which was rebuilt within a couple of years. After the Bolsheviks seized it in October 1917 the building became part of the State Hermitage Museum, which now displays one of the world's great art collections in its halls.
Before and after
- from December 1759 to May 1760Burmese–Siamese War of 1759–60
- from 1760 to 1830Neoclassicism
- from 1760 to 1820Industrial Revolution
- 31 October 1760Birth of Katsushika Hokusai
- 1762Construction of Winter Palace
- from 1762 to 1763Spanish–Portuguese War of 1762–1763
- from 1762 to 1763Anglo-Spanish War
- from 5 January 1762 to 12 February 1762Invasion of Martinique
- from 5 May 1762 to 24 November 1762Spanish invasion of Portugal
More in Art, literature & culture
- 5 May 1821Founding of The Guardian
- 7 April 1837Publication of The Little Mermaid
- 21 February 1848Publication of The Communist Manifesto
- 18 September 1851Founding of The New York Times
- c. 1860sImpressionism
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
The era
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