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Tauride Palace. Coordinates: 59°56′52″N 30°22′33″E. Facade of Tauride Palace in 2016. Tauride Palace (Russian: Таврический дворец, romanized: Tavrichesky dvorets) is one of the largest and most historically important palaces in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
In 1783, the Khanate of Crimea was annexed from the Ottoman Empire by Catherine the Great’s Russia. Soon after, Taurida Oblast was established. During the reign of Paul I the oblast was abolished, but in 1802 re-established as a governorate (guberniya). It was a part of the Russian Empire until the Russian Revolution of 1918.
The Moscow Kremlin[a] or simply the Kremlin[b] is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia. [1] Located in the centre of the country's capital city, it is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall along with the Kremlin towers.
Princely arms of Grigory Potemkin. Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski[ c ] (October 11 [ O.S. September 30] 1739 [ nb 1 ] – October 16 [ O.S. October 5] 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Jassy, which ended a war with ...
The Winter Palace[ 1 ] is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the House of Romanov, previous emperors, from 1732 to 1917. The palace and its precincts now house the Hermitage Museum. The floor area is 233,345 square metres (it has been calculated that the palace contains 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms ...
The Castle is oriented as a square with rounded corners, inside the square, there is an octagonal inner courtyard.The main entrance to the castle is to the south. Three angled bridges formed the link between the building and the square of the Connettables in front of it, after the square of the same name in Chantilly, the property of the Princes of Condé that Paul had visited during his stays ...
The Grand Kremlin Palace (‹See Tfd› Russian: Большой Кремлёвский дворец, romanized:Bolshoy Kremlyovskiy dvorets) [ 1 ] is a building in the Moscow Kremlin. For much of the 19th century, it served as the official residence of the Russian emperor in Moscow. Designed by a team of architects under the management of ...
"Putin's Palace" [3] (Russian: "Дворец Путина", romanized: "Dvorets Putina") is an Italianate palace complex located on the Black Sea coast near Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The complex first came to public attention in 2010 after whistleblower Sergei Kolesnikov published an open letter to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev ...