embankment, then it was already standing, the fourth winter building, built by the architect bartolome rastrellin the orders of anna ivanovna. but elizabeth did not make him beautiful enough and she ordered more. in addition, they shot to increase the height of the building and attach new buildings to it, the architect began work, but realizing that a single ensemble did not work out, he decided to rebuild the palace became at that time the tallest residential building in st. about one and a half thousands of rooms that catherine the great completed the first world war, from the residence of the romanovs, it turned into a military hospital. under soviet rule, it became a museum today it is part of the museum complex of the state hermitage on june 27, 1905 , an uprising began on the battleship potemkin. this one of the key events of the first russian revolution served as a pretext for rotten meat purchased for sailors. they dealt with the officers, and then declared the battleship of the territory of free russia, approached odessa and opened artillery fire to the city, sort of like, in order to s