Winter Palace

Architecture · 1754–1762 · Saint Petersburg · Eastern Europe & Russia

Chief imperial residence until 1917, now the Hermitage; focal point of 1905 and October 1917

Author: Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Style: Elizabethan Baroque — Rastrelli's lavish court Baroque: turquoise-and-white palaces with gilding on Russian soil
Century: 18th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1752–1756 Catherine Palace — Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli · Elizabethan Baroque · Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin)
1758–1790 Panthéon — Jacques-Germain Soufflot · Neoclassicism · Paris
1759 Candide — Voltaire · Geneva
c. 1760 Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin · Beijing
1745–1747 Sanssouci — Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff · Rococo · Potsdam
1745–1754 Wieskirche — Dominikus Zimmermann · Rococo · Steingaden, Bavaria
c. 1766–1794 Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Ouro Preto — Aleijadinho · Latin American Baroque · Ouro Preto, Brazil
1767 The Swing — Jean-Honoré Fragonard · Rococo · Paris