Published by the Imperial Moscow Archaeological Institute, this monumental work gives detailed descriptions of the building and their contents of the Winter Palace, the Summer Palaces, the Anichkov and Marble Palaces of St. Petersburg, and of the palaces and estates at Petergof, Oranienbaum, Tsarskoe Selo, Aleksandrovsk and Pavlovsk. Volume I includes a dictionary of 18th century artists whose works are represented in the Imperial collections