The
Winter Palace in
Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the
Russian monarchs. Situated between the
Palace Embankment and the
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. The storming of the palace in 1917 as depicted in Soviet paintings and
Eisenstein's 1927 film
October became an iconic symbol of the
Russian Revolution.