Marienpalast
| Marienpalast | |
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.jpg) Facade of the Marienpalast |
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| Data | |
| place |
Kiev , Ukraine
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| architect | Bartolomeo Rastrelli |
| Builder | Tsarina Elisabeth of Russia |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Construction year | December 1744 - December 1752 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 26 '54 " N , 30 ° 32' 15" E |
| particularities | |
| Residence of the President of Ukraine | |
The Marienpalast ( Russian Мариинский дворец , Ukrainian Маріїнський палац ) is a Baroque palace in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on the high right bank of the Dnieper . The palace now serves as the official ceremonial residence of the President of Ukraine and is in the immediate vicinity of the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament.
history
The palace was commissioned by the Russian Empress Elisabeth in 1744 and was designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli , Russia's most famous architect of the time. One of Rastrelli's students, Ivan Michurin , together with a group of other architects completed the palace in 1752. The Empress Elisabeth, however, did not see him again. The first crowned person to visit the palace was Catherine the Great , who was visiting Kiev in 1787. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries , the Marian Palace was the seat of the Governor General of the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire .
In the early 19th century, there were a number of fires in the palace that destroyed it. Half a century later, in 1870, Tsar Alexander II gave the order to rebuild the Marian Palace on the basis of old drawings and sketches made by the architect Konstantin Majewski . The palace was named after Alexander II's wife, Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna . At her request, a large park was created in front of the north facade of the palace. The palace served as a residence for guests of the imperial family until 1917.
In the years of the Russian Civil War 1917–1920, the Marienpalast was used as a military headquarters . In the 1920s the building belonged to an agricultural college, after which it was converted into a museum . During the Second World War , the palace was massively damaged as a result of heavy German bombing raids on the city and was restored again in the late 1940s. Another major restoration was carried out in the early 1980s.
See also
- Mariinsky Palace in Saint Petersburg
- Klow Palace ; another baroque palace in Kiev
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ “An elegant palace in a charming park” on wumag.kiev.ua ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on June 1, 2014 (English)
