Museum · St. Petersburg

Hermitage Museum: Tsarist Wine Culture

State Hermitage Museum, Catherine the Great's 1764 palace, holds 3 million artworks revealing Tsarist feasts and wine culture across centuries of imperial masquerades.

What to do there

CulturalHermitage Museum: Tsarist Wine CultureThe Hermitage holds 3 million artworks - and the ghosts of Tsarist wine culture. Catherine the Great's Tokay collection, the champagne that flowed at imperial balls. The Winter Palace saw it all.

Wineries nearby

Winery Winter Palace: The Revolution Wine Riot "The greatest hangover in history"—October 1917, Bolsheviks ransacked Winter Palace's imperial wine cellars, red wine flooded St. Petersburg streets for a month.