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Alexander/Catherine Palace was the main residence of the Tsar and his family. But they did have over twenty palaces and mansion at their disposal, ah the decadence. They lived mainly in Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia (Tsarskoe Selo stands for "Czar's Village." It was yellow and probably one of their smaller palaces. They lived in Livadia Palace and Peterhof Palace over the summer. The Winter Palace (seen in the Disney Movie "Anastasia", used to be the main residence of past Czar's, but Nicholas II was told he could not live there because of security problems.
Originally, prior to the French Revolution, the French monarchs such as Louis XVI lived in the palace of Versailles.
The Palace of Versailles.
Winston Churchill was born there.
The Winter Palace was the headquarters for the Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks did not like how the government was being run so they wanted to take over. A major thing they wanted to change was to take them out of the war.