He did this either alone or in the company of his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna. “Walked with the girls all over the palace roof and then in the garden,” Emperor Nicholas II wrote in his diary on February 25, 1913. Even the historical walkways the emperor used have been preserved – they were left as a memorial. Ramps with railings run along the entire perimeter of the building. You are supposed to walk on them in flat shoes, and in the past, people used to wear felt boots. The walkways are set back at a safe distance from the edge of the roof: after all, the Winter Palace stands 23.5 meters tall.