Student palace
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 ′ 39 ″ N , 35 ° 4 ′ 16 ″ E
The student Palace of the National University Dnipro ( Ukrainian Палац студентів імені Юрія Гагаріна Дніпровського національного університету імені Олеся Гончара . ), Formerly Potemkin Palace ( Ukrainian Потьомкінський палац ), is an architectural monument of national importance of Ukraine and is located in the city of Dnipro . It now houses the Dnipro Historical Museum .
history
After the conquest of New Russia in the course of the 5th Russian Turkish War (1768–1774) , the lieutenant general , count and favorite of Tsarina Catherine II. Grigory Potjomkin moved to the areas that were now part of the Russian Empire , with the establishment of Yekaterinoslav (literally: in honor of Catherine) as the capital of the new territories and other cities such as Odessa , Zaporizhia , Cherson Sevastopol and Mykolaiv were adopted and implemented.
As governor Neurusslands needed Potemkin he therefore a prestige offices as part of a citywide project the then-known architects of the Russian Empire the St. Petersburg Ivan Jegorowitsch Starov ( Russian Старов, Иван Егорович ) did create his palace, which the prominent architect Matvey Kazakov ( russian Казако́в, Матве́й Фёдорович ) was built from 1787 to 1790 in the style of the classicism prevailing at the time on the right side of the Dnieper and opposite the monastery island .
1790 after the completion of the Potemkin palace was traveling at the request of Potemkin the St. Petersburg landscape gardener W. Gold ( Russian В. Гольд ) and laid one, the palace surrounding Baroque garden at the same time probably the most important greenhouse of his time.
The palace was based heavily on the Transfiguration Cathedral , which was under construction at the time , the foundation walls of which have just been built. This composition was supposed to shape the city that was just about to become.
The palace is an important attraction of the city of Dnipro and possibly even of the whole of southern Ukraine (formerly New Russia ) not only because of its 121 meter long facade, but also because of its magnificent decoration .
The Tsarina Catherine II was actually supposed to visit the city and the palace in 1792 for her 30th anniversary of her coronation, but after the death of her favorite and lover Potjomkin in 1791, it never happened .
During the reign of Paul I , who, as if obsessed with an obsession, always urged to do the opposite of what his mother did, the Tsarina Catherine II , palace was severely neglected, although perhaps more appropriately one could say “turned into a ruin”.
In the 1830s there were voices calling for renovation and restoration, whereby the condition of the palace seemed to deteriorate from day to day - only remnants of the once magnificent roof could be guessed, the columns were badly damaged and the wall colors were only left to assume. The then Yekaterinoslav lacked the financial means to finance a full renovation that was actually needed and so the building was at least poorly renovated. Thanks to donations from the manufacturer and industrialist AN Paul, the “Public Museum of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate” (today the Dnipro Historical Museum ) was established.
location
The palace is located on the coastal part of Shevchenko Park and, like this one in the Sobor district , is about 200 meters from the Transfiguration Cathedral .
Web links
- Homepage of the student palace with an article on its history , accessed on June 16, 2013
- Article of the city administration on the palace (Russian) , accessed on June 16, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Article of the city administration , accessed on June 16, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Homepage of the Student Palace with an article on its history (eng) ( Memento from December 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 16, 2013