Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak (Bantam) Catherine the Great, the much-mythologized empress of 18th-century Russia, has long been a popular subject for ...

The original Amber Room that stood in this place was one of the great masterpieces of the 18th century. Somewhere along the line--no one at the Catherine Palace museum now seems quite sure when ...

Palace: Catherine and William expecting 2nd child Jethro Mullen, CNN 2 minute read Updated 1:40 PM EDT, Mon September 8, 2014 Link Copied! Video Ad Feedback. Catherine and ...

Nearly two months after undergoing abdominal surgery, Catherine, the princess of Wales, appeared in an official photograph, released on Sunday by Kensington Palace to mark Mother’s Day in Britain.

Located near the Catherine Palace and Park, the nearly 500-acre Alexander Park is less formal than its neighbor. The Alexander Palace, which was a frequent retreat for the last czar, Nicholas II ...

Gatchina, the palace built by Italian architects near St. Petersburg, turns 250 this year. In its time this imperial residence has been a hunting lodge for Catherine the Great’s lover, an ...

Recreation of the Amber Room in Catherine Palace, Pushkin, near St Petersburg, Russia, 2000. Photo: Patrick Aventurier / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Kensington Palace, where Catherine and her husband, Prince William, have their offices, did not respond to requests for comment. Earlier, a palace official said the photo had been taken by William ...

For Catherine, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg is a prison of loneliness and anxiety, where everyone from the lowest servant to the highest-ranking adviser acts as Elizabeth’s spy, ...