When you come to St. Petersburg, you must go to the Winter Palace. This magnificent palace of the former Tsar has become a world-class museum like the Louvre, the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You can see the antiquity of the Babylonian period here. Renaissance paintings, even works of art from China - in fact, in the earliest days, here is the private museum of the Russian Empress Catherine II, by the famous Italian architect Bartolomio Rastre Lee design. and the most famous historical event of the Winter Palace is November 7th, 1917. With a cannon from the Aphrodite cruiser on the Neva River, the insurgents took the Winter Palace in one fell swoop. This is the beginning of the October Revolution.