The main Imperial Palace of Russia, located at the address: Palace square, 2 / Palace embankment, 38 St. Petersburg. The present building of the Palace was built in 1754-1762 by the Russian architect of Italian origin Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli in the style of magnificent Elizabethan Baroque with elements of French Rococo in the interiors. Since Soviet times, the main exposition of the State Hermitage has been placed in the walls of the Palace