The winter palace has 18 different wings (I believe it was 18). Interestingly enough, when new rulers came to power, they did not want to live in the same wing as the former. This means that each wing is different and reflects the architecture of the time period during which it was built. Pictured is only one wing of the many.
The two statues of horsemen were done by the same artist. On one of them, the horse only touches the ground with two hooves, whereas in the other one, the tail is also touching the ground (the latter is Eugene of Savoy, I'm not sure who is the former). The artist was able to balance the first one so that he did not need the tail to touch, but could not repeat this feat on the second one. People began to criticize his second work and he killed himself in shame.
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