One of the most famous palaces in Russia and popular St. Petersburg tours is Catherine Palace. It construction started in 171. It was constructed from a stone and is known as a "stone palace" in history. When the construction of a palace was complete there were a great celebrations, where 30 canons shoot 3 times and all aristocrats and royal family were there.
With time and new emperiors palace was gaining even more beauty. In 1756 famous architector of that time Rastrelli showed imperior Elizabeth the remodeled main building. It was stated as a most gorgeous building of the XVIII century. Only on it front decoration was used more then 100 killograms of gold. There were more then 100 different statues of lions, titans and other ornament on it front yard
Palace was a center of royal life where not only inportant government decisions were made, but also biggest balls, and beautiful carnivals took place. Later it was restructured inside and everything was telling about the majestic Russia and the mighty of it warriors. Rooms were more like museum that telling about huge battles, victories, power, and glory. Visit Russia most go around seeing this place.
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