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Layout of 2nd floor. The Grand Kremlin Palace is 125 metres long and 47 metres high. The total area of the complex exceeds 25,000 square metres. [2] In plan, the Grand Kremlin Palace is presented in the form of a square with a small Cour d'honneur, in the centre of which was the Church of the Saviour on Boru, demolished in the 1930s.
English: Night view of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia. It was built from 1837 to 1849 on the site of the estate of the Grand Princes, which had been established in the 14th century on Borovitsky Hill. The palace, 125 metres (410 ft) long and 47 metres (154 ft) tall, was formerly the tsar's Moscow residence.
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The palace survived until the Tang dynasty, when it was burnt down by marauding invaders en route to the Tang capital, Chang'an. It was the largest palace complex ever built on Earth, [26] covering 4.8 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi), which is 6.7 times the size of the current Forbidden City, or 11 times the size of the Vatican City.
Grand Kremlin Palace, commissioned 1838 by Czar Nicholas I, constructed 1839–1849, today the official residence of the President of Russia. On visiting Moscow for his coronation festivities, Tsar Nicholas I was not satisfied with the Grand Palace (alias Winter Palace), which had been erected in the 1750s to the design of Francesco Rastrelli.
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The palace has a rectangular shape and a volume of about 40,000 m³. It has over 800 rooms. [3] The central part of the building is occupied by an auditorium (in Soviet times, a conference hall) for 6,000 seats. Architectural historian Andrey Ikonnikov notes the openness of the internal layout of the palace and its interiors.