www.hermitagemuseum.org  Winter and Christmas in St Petersburg A cold day at the Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad) , December 2012. The earliest and most celebrated building on the square is the baroque white-and-azure Winter Palace of Russian tsars (1754–62), which gave the square its name and where the State Hermitage Museum is located today. Pay a virtual visit to the Winterpala…