The Winter Palace of Peter the Great

The Winter Palace of Peter the Great is a unique architectural monument of the first quarter of the 18th century. The official residence of Peter I was located on the territory now occupied by the Hermitage Theatre. In the part of the palace which has been preserved, there is a memorial exhibition dedicated to Peter the Great and his time. In his rooms - the study, the dining room and the turnery - decoration has been recreated using genuine items that belonged to the Emperor. So-called 'Wax effigy,' a posthumous sculptural portrait of Peter I, has been also put on display.

[@sirsytham1588]

Something tells me this is going to be recommended to everyone

[@avantelvsitania3359]

Sir Sytham well it just happened to me, and I don’t regret it.

[@sirsytham1588]

Avante Lvsitania same

[@jakubmarszaek8330]

Lol

[@polasamierwahsh421]

Perhaps

[@bernardsinaga4436]

Yeah dude

[@msdarcy518]

Im i the only one who likes the second and the third design cuz it looks more like a palace but the last design looks like a ordinary building facing the canal

[@Valaryant.]

Nope, you are not the only one

[@Ramoa111]

yeap. lt looks like somewhere l'd go fetch mail or something

[@Erix442]

@@Ramoa111 where are you from?

[@keisambautista6046]

From lodge to palace to office building.

[@TheEngineer4077]

I liked how the video showed the evolution of such a beautiful palace. It's just... cow bell? Really?

[@huascar66]

So beautiful! One day I hope to visit Russia and see The Hermitage for myself, as well as visit other Imperial Russia monuments. and cities. Russia's Imperial history is so fascinating. I have read so many books (and bought so many, too!) about this period of Russian history.

[@kaloarepo288]

So many of the great buildings of Imperial Russia seem to have been designed by Italian or Swiss-Italian architects and the Winter Palace is no exception -I think it was either Rastrelli or Quarenghi who designed it.Even the much earlier Moscow Kremlin and some churches within it were designed by Italians -Fioravanti designed the Kremlin I believe.

[@gobseck]

All this splendor and luxury was based on the slave labor of serfs, who made up two-thirds population of the empire. Russian slaves was bought and sold, wholesale and retail, children separate from their parents. This ceased only 150 years ago.

[@kaloarepo288]

The fact that these splendid buildings were built by serf/slave labour doesn't detract from their beauty -as a matter of fact by admiring them we are paying tribute to these unfortunate people.All the great structures ever built in the history of the world were erected by some sort of exploited labour.Just an unfortunate fact!

[@gobseck]

Stalin's supporters approximately also say: that millions of the victims - are justified by "great buildings" of the industrialization period. Beauty of these buildings doesn't detract the price which is paid for her. Construction of Versailles, Sanssouci or Buckingham Palace - it is justified by benefit that was received by the third estate and free workers. Artisans and bricklayers were paid salaries. Another matter, serfs in Russia. Looking at these buildings, personally I can't abstract from tears and blood that are put in these stones. Yes, undoubtedly beautiful, but hardly slaves thought of beauty and an esthetics. Not only certain buildings, but also the city - St. Petersburg, has been constructed by slaves. For the construction of the city every year about 20 thousand slaves were recruited. According to various sources, the mortality rate was about 10-20%. Families of fugitives went to prisons as hostages. Different European travelers, who were at that time in Russia, cite the figure of 20 to 300,000 of those killed in the construction. The figures are likely exaggerated, but nonetheless. St. Petersburg in the literal sense is built on bones.

[@kaloarepo288]

Great Wall of China is built on human bones too! Its the nature of the human story.Also think about the billions of animals that have been sacrificed for human needs -the endless toil endured by elephants, horses, oxen, donkeys or whatever.The trillions of animals killed for human consumption.This is the nature of reality. Why stop at the human cost -count the animal cost as well. What do you want to happen -demolish everything because it was built by slaves or serfs?This would be the ultimate indignity committed against the people who toiled and suffered1 Just enjoy the beauty.

[@amirsur2750]

I live in St. Petersburg all my life, specifically not far away from the center, and now get this recommended. Cool

[@LemonsRage]

If I was rich then I'd put a replica of my house everywhere on the planet so I'd feel home everywhere:)

[@aaronkayegeneral7790]

hahahaa too funny

[@s.a.m.francis]

OMG I was so confused for so long, as I've seen the winter palace, and it didn't look like this, finally I realised that there are two and that next to this one, is the other one.

[@adude8424]

Good lord it's bigger than my chateau, damn you russkies

[@kristine8338]

An aristocrat, 😂🤣😂

[@rochelimit55555]

wth lol

[@animemusic8]

Hahahaha

[@adam422]

Well, you are not a Tsar, let alone an Emperor

[@stickman8459]

Once this gets recommended to everyone REMEMBER MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@sircoloniser5454]

We will

[@stickman8459]

It didn’t :(

[@MicaRayan]

Crazily stunning😘

[@Semper_Iratus]

Fantastic. Thank you for sharing.

[@welcometotheinternet574]

YT: Wanna see a video about Peter the Greats Palace without subtitles? 125 K ppl: *HELL YEAH*

[@ninarosado5811]

I could live here by myself and be completely fine

[@kajakkille]

Interesting how They play street lights in the animation . A late 19 century in the 18 century

[@gigitorvik]

son faroles iluminados con velas o bien con paños y kerosen 😉 ya que tampoco se visualiza tendido eléctrico 😒

[@valiatus6719]

I wonder how many ducats they wasted on the first 3 before they where satisfied.

[@simunniclasen4283]

None, they wasted rubles.

[@valiatus6719]

@@simunniclasen4283 Props to you for not getting the reference.

[@CarolusIMagnus]

Scolar Visari They probably asked the Burghers for contribution in exchange for 10 loyalty.

[@Quasisaur]

Actually you were right the first time our government used fake dutch gold coins all through 18th and even up to 19th century they were called "Голландский червонец русской чеканки". Dutch government begged us to stop doing it but we didn't even after THEY stopped using this coin. There's an article in wiki about it(but it's only in russian but I guess you can always use google translate.

[@Hoshino_Channel]

@@Quasisaur It's an eu4 reference lol

[@tommim.1516]

3:30 when Madame Tussauds goes wrong 😂😂😂

[@ilan.woodward]

jeez that was unexpected and intense

[@WatChaDoing]

ganda naman po jan.

[@JonatasMonte]

Looks like LEGO, you just keep adding more blocks/bricks.

[@toxicflour833]

So ya telling me peter thinks that a big long house is still small? So he added more rooms? Now that's the lifestyle i want

[@tobiassanchez455]

i luv the 4th winter palace

[@rmpground2200]

Very nice

[@ommsterlitz1805]

As Great as Peter !

[@benjaminruiza]

Great Video!

[@thomassmith8140]

"A palace!...lets built it again...Looks great!...lets built it again...Omg its so spectacular!....nnna lets build it again...Unbelievable, a true miracle of archite...BUILD IT AGAIN!!!"

[@ninarosado5811]

This should be my house

[@bobbybr93]

Very interesting!

[@karldelavigne8134]

The music is painfully loud and intrusive, and in very bad taste.

[@ceciliabush3495]

Mint castle 🏰 ❤️☦️💕 Russia 🇷🇺

[@isaiahmenchaca143]

this was reall good

[@jaybonn5973]

Just goes to show architecture is inconsistent at best and that fine.

[@ronaldolzheim363]

i've been inside their and it was fun though

[@neverforgottenful]

Is it done in Lumion?

[@sagnikgangopadhyay4687]

What's the background music? It's catchy!!

[@ninarosado5811]

See I knew it was house this should be my house literally

[@reidate7274]

Winter Palace Video: *Aurora has entered the chat*

[@athingwhichexists]

2:09 hey, that looks pretty good and interesting. Somewhere someone would want to live and be proud of 2:11 and now it looks just stupid, like a giant rectangle with no interesting sections 2:40 what is wrong with this woman, now it looks like someone was embarrased by it and so they just continued building the city as if there wasn't a building there

[@zaya7330]

The more modern something is the uglier it becomes.

[@drugreen123]

When I was in Russia and heard this story while on a tour there I just kept saying to my husband "That's why there was a revolution. Had to happen." Build a castle- oh, not big enough. Build a BIGGER castle. Whoops! Need a bigger one! Etc. Etc. Meanwhile peasants starved. We visited the Hermitage and similarly as I entered each bejeweled and gilded room I said the same thing. The revolution HAD to happen. How many "throne rooms" does one person need?

[@martinbudinsky8912]

Wait Hermitage? Isnt it supposted to be Heritage?

[@Ramoa111]

ridiculous. lmagine forgetting your phone in one of the rooms

[@vikram8411]

Sure it was big enough for 4 people

[@Cjnw]

Wide Peter (100 th comment)

[@largol33t1]

I wonder how they got the money to build all those ginormous palaces without the country going into recession.

[@jayfawn8478]

largol33t1 palace represents corruption. Russia is like other third world countries

[@neverforgottenful]

Peter I banned all stone construction in the rest of country, so basically all the qualified construction workers were concentrated in new capital city.

[@cs0345]

@@jayfawn8478 They had to build palaces like these so that Russia at least looks like like its not a complete backwater country

[@cianakril]

@@jayfawn8478 yeah, sure, and the French Versailles, which was bigger several times, was totally corruption free and zero world country, it's only when it's Russian it must be something sinister 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@HattieMcDanielonaMoon]

I could never visit these palaces, these used to be people's homes and I feel it would be disrespectful.

[@isaiahmenchaca143]

loser

[@fakkajohan]

@@isaiahmenchaca143 that's rude of you!

[@mister-v-3086]

curious...I thought Ivan Grozny was First emperor

[@amirsur2750]

he was the first tsař (basically king).

[@jezalb2710]

@@amirsur2750 was not

[@cianakril]

@@amirsur2750 Ivan Grozny is Ivan IV. The first tsar was Ivan III, the grandpa of Grozny.

[@Sineri-rj6nw]

Почему я это смотрю... И почему это смотрите вы?

[@malter87]

nice animation, lol :P in Russia the Hermitage animates you XD

[@imeprezime530]

5. was best

[@whothoughthandleswereagoodidea]

i'm trying to figure out how this is related in any way to video games and/or memes beyond wide putin

[@Curly_Horse]

Bruh

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Ok

[@frankalba]

Built on swedish grounds. Give it back!

[@cianakril]

It's Novgorod ground Sweden stole and quickly returned back. But if you want it again, come and take it. If you dare.

[@frankalba]

@@cianakril make Charles XII great again 😀

[@nocsu8827]

Wait I thought it`s a Minecraft video

[@ZeRomanEmpire]

the music is giving me brain damage

[@blackrabbit212]

Apparently, that's not difficult.

[@didouOficial]

Which program do u use

[@ninarosado5811]

This is my birth right

[@rochelimit55555]

“Russia before communism”

[@Canhistoryismylife]

rochelimit's hangout it was still built on the bones of the serfs who died building it so somethings never change

[@cyberpunkdenton9497]

Communism, huh? What about China. They are doing great as far as building infra goes. Yea

[@rochelimit55555]

Tidgy BS communism stop shanghai growth for 30 years, until they realized it should be done in moderation

[@Erix442]

@Keyrings Locks I'm russian, and I don't think so. I hate Stalin and because communism caused a lot of harm to Russia. Russia before revolution is not so bad like communists says. Communists are mainly affected the older zombien generation, and the new generation is more progressive. Communists are mostly poor losers who envy wealthy people. When I start to communicate with the Communists, I understand that they are stupid.

[@cianakril]

And what's the difference? While aristocracy of the Russian Empire was building grotesque palaces, 2/3 of the population were illiterate pisants living in simple wooden huts so bad that commiblocks were an improvement in just about everything, including architecture for majority of the huts. Not to mention, communists were building "palaces" in the similar neo-empire and neo-classicism stiles for little less than a half of the USSR entire existence. You won't even recognize early Soviet intrusions in St. Petersburg city center built alongside imperial buildings, they just blend naturally. And it wasn't communists who had invented modernism and brutalism later on in the 60es - say thanks to Le Corbusier.

[@yoonhye5110]

بغزي القدس احلى

[@ThomasHarding1990]

Shame about the American voice tbh.

[@mikaelb.2070]

Back in the day when Russian rulers cooperated with the West instead of fighting it.

[@nimkati5627]

Are you sure? Russia was fighting Sweden, Prussia, France, Poland and other countries.

[@mikaelb.2070]

@@nimkati5627 Everybody was fighting everybody militarily back in the day. But culturally Russia was cooperating and learning from the West. Now they send their killers to shoot people in broad daylight in Berlin or poison families in England.

[@nimkati5627]

@@mikaelb.2070 And 200 years ago nobody was poisoning anybody? Now do you think Russia is learning culturally from where? For Russia, almost nothing changed from that age.

[@mikaelb.2070]

@@nimkati5627 Sending assassins is not generally accepted anymore today and it wasn't a thing in Western Europe 200 years ago either, sorry.

[@nimkati5627]

@@mikaelb.2070 Russia is not Western Europe. It takes what IT wants from Western Europe and not what Western Europe wants Russia to take from it. It was this way back then and it is so now. Nothing changed.

[@user-rl3wz3jh7o]

Субтитры на русском давай)

[@fallendevonish1869]

GANIBAL was suppose to be his true heir

[@turblijura]

Peter the I was absolute Hitler of his time. Window to Europe is same shit banner as Drang nah Ost.

[@ceciliabush3495]

Russia 🇷🇺 Moscow emphasized

[@superpacocaalado7215]

When you are a russian peseant working yout ass of planting wheat all day long and see that your dictator is re-building his winter palace for the 4th time. **Cries in pre revolucionary thinking**

[@pranavtyagi7478]

That’s a house not a palace go take a look at Versailles or the Louvre... Russia had the ugliest palaces and were soooo backward compared to the other European nations of the time.

[@ras573]

No, that is not a house, it's a palace and backwardness is a relative term. Both Peter and Catherine were very intelligent, educated and competent leaders of their eras, as were their courts as well.

[@jojoslasthamon5120]

@@ras573 I guess he only saw this animation and made his mind about the others.

[@blackrabbit212]

@@jojoslasthamon5120 He has a mind?

[@jojoslasthamon5120]

blackrabbit212 A question of the century