{"id":6322,"date":"2010-01-21T08:21:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T15:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=6322"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:38:45","slug":"featured-the-winter-palace-of-the-russian-tsars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-the-winter-palace-of-the-russian-tsars\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WINTER PALACE OF THE RUSSIAN TSARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">The Winter Palace<\/span> in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian Tsars. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great&#8217;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 became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong>Hard bound in publishers pictoral clam shell box. No dust jacket, as issued. 299 pages profusely illustrated with watercolors from the collection of the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Aqua boards show minor rubbing. Interior clean and binding strong. Wear to edges and corners of publishers clam shell box, otherwise very good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 18823<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6330\" title=\"p1050570\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050570-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"p1050570\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050570-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1050570.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Winter Palace: Saint Petersburg<br \/>\n<\/strong><span id=\"biblio-publisher\">Alain De Gourcuff Editeur, Paris<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ISBN:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-isbn\">2909838137<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-publisher\">Alain De Gourcuff Editeur, Paris<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-pubdate\">1995<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-binding\">Hard Bound<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-bookcondition\">Very Good<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-dustjacketcondition\">No Dust Jacket<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian Tsars. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great&#8217;s original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6322"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15123,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions\/15123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}