In 1905 the Bloody Sunday massacre occurred when demonstrators marched toward the Winter Palace, but by this time the Imperial Family had chosen to live in the more secure and secluded Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo, and returned to the Winter Palace only for formal and state occasions. Following a serious fire, the palace's rebuilding of 1837 left the exterior unchanged, but large parts of the interior were redesigned in a variety of tastes and styles, leading the palace to be described as a '19th-century palace inspired by a model in Rococo style'. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases. The green-and-white palace has the overall shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal faГ§ade is 215 metres (705В ft) long and 30В m (98В ft) high. Several architects participated in designing the Winter Palace - most notably the Italian Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) - in what became known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. From the palace, the Tsars ruled over 22,800,000 square kilometers (8,800,000В sqВ mi) (almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass) and 125В million subjects by the end of the 19th century. The emperors constructed their palaces on a monumental scale that aimed to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. The storming of the palace in 1917, as depicted in Soviet propaganda art and in Sergei Eisenstein's 1928 film October, became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution. Situated between Palace Embankment and Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. As of 2021 the palace and its precincts form the Hermitage Museum.

Zimnij dvorets, IPA: ) is a palace in Saint Petersburg, which served as the official residence of the Russian Emperors from 1732 to 1917.

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