tickets cost $17.95 for one-day entrance into the Main Museum Complex and General Staff Building. Meanwhile, a two-day ticket to the Main Museum Complex, General Staff Building, Winter Palace of ...

Recent visitors said the experience (especially the gardens) is well worth the entrance fees ... including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost 200 years.

Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power, promising the Russian people a dictatorship of the proletariat and a new era of classless equality ...