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 ...

Civil war ravages the countryside, but inside the city walls of Halamshiral's Winter Palace, Dragon Age: Inquisition's nobles gather, apparently unperturbed by the chaos. The role-playing game's ...

Though plans for a massive, record-breaking ice palace for the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival melted a couple of months ago when the millions of dollars needed to build it couldn’t be raised, ...

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 biographers, ...