In 1717, Peter the Great commissioned a building for his wife, Catherine, who succeeded him after his death, but her namesake palace only began taking on its grand stature in 1743, when their ...

The Catherine Palace, known as the Great Palace of Tsarskoe Selo prior to 1910, was first built in 1717 as a royal residence in the capital of St. Petersburg by architect Johann Friedrich Braunstein.

The State Museum-Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo" (St. Petersburg, Pushkin) hosted the grand opening of the interiors of the Zubovsky wing of the Catherine Palace after a large-scale restoration. The project ...

King Jan III Sobieski of Poland began construction on Wilanów Palace in Warsaw, complete with a vast network of underground ...