The Winter Palace is the former official residence of the Russian tsars of the House of Romanov in Saint Petersburg, built in its present form between 1754 and 1762 to designs by the Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli in an elaborate late Baroque style commissioned by Empress Elizabeth. It occupies a prominent site between the Neva River embankment and Palace Square. In October 1917 the palace was stormed by Bolshevik forces, an event that marked the effective end of the Russian Provisional Government led by Alexander Kerensky. Today the palace and its adjoining buildings house the State Hermitage Museum, one of the largest and oldest art museums in the world, holding millions of works of art and historical artifacts.
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Winter Palace, Wikipedia
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The Winter Palace is a palace in Saint Petersburg
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The Winter Palace is the former official residence of the Russian tsars of the House of Romanov in Saint Petersburg, built in its present form between 1754 and 1762 to designs by the Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli in an elaborate late Baroque style commissioned by Empress Elizabeth. It occupies a prominent site between the Neva River embankment and Palace Square. In October 1917 the palace was stormed by Bolshevik forces, an event that marked the effective end of the Russian Provisional Government led by Alexander Kerensky. Today the palace and its adjoining buildings house the State Hermitage Museum, one of the largest and oldest art museums in the world, holding millions of works of art and historical artifacts.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field
The Winter Palace is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the House of Romanov, the emperors of Russia, from 1732 to 1917. The palace and its precincts now house the Hermitage Museum. The floor area is 233,345 square metres (it has been calculated that the palace contains 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases). The total area of the Winter Pala
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
The Winter Palace is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the House of Romanov, the emperors of Russia, from 1732 to 1917. The palace and its precincts now house the Hermitage Museum. The floor area is 233,345 square metres (it has been calculated that the palace contains 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases). The total area of the Winter Pala
In Style: Baroque Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Baroque architecture in Saint Petersburg
View the Source2. Wikidata: Winter Palace
- Wikidata Q182147, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q182147, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the Source3. Hermitage Museum (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1762)Quote, Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1762)
Wikidata item Q182147, property P1619: 1762
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