Winter palace

[Alina Israeli]

> All
>governmental buildings in Russian Empire, including the Winter Palace were
>painted in yellow.

That's news to me. I know it was brick red at one point, but I never heard
of it being yellow. Yellow was the color of classicism in St.Petersburg
(Rossi, for ex.). I don't recall a single barocco building painted in
yellow.

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