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The palace was once used as a mental institution, and is now a historical museum. Most of the historical furnishings have been lost, but anything that has been recovered can be seen for a small fee. In August 2007 the palace was recognized as a ''landmark of modern history'' by the [[Seven Wonders of Ukraine]] project. Ukrainian pop singer [[Sofia Rotaru]], who celebrated her 60th birthday at the palace in the company of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and Moldavia – the second such meeting since the [[Yalta Conference]] – funded the restoration of Livadia Palace in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tden.ru/articles/024175/|title=Sofia Rotaru decided to take Livadia Palace in charge. | work= Твой День | accessdate=2007-12-28}}</ref>
The palace was once used as a mental institution, and is now a historical museum. Most of the historical furnishings have been lost, but anything that has been recovered can be seen for a small fee. In August 2007 the palace was recognized as a ''landmark of modern history'' by the [[Seven Wonders of Ukraine]] project. Ukrainian pop singer [[Sofia Rotaru]], who celebrated her 60th birthday at the palace in the company of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and Moldavia – the second such meeting since the [[Yalta Conference]] – funded the restoration of Livadia Palace in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tden.ru/articles/024175/|title=Sofia Rotaru decided to take Livadia Palace in charge. | work= Твой День | accessdate=2007-12-28}}</ref>


Numerous academic conferences have been held at the palace. [http://www.livadia-palace.crimea.com/publishing.htm Palace staff actively publish their research.] Visitors are particularly interested in the [http://krim-konference.at.ua/index/conference_yalta_45_13/0-5 events of 1945.]
Numerous academic conferences have been held at the palace. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130522133112/http://www.livadia-palace.crimea.com/publishing.htm Palace staff actively publish their research.] Visitors are particularly interested in the [http://krim-konference.at.ua/index/conference_yalta_45_13/0-5 events of 1945.]


==Architecture==
==Architecture==

Revision as of 03:19, 4 January 2018

Facade of the Livadia Palace
An Italian courtyard of the Livadia Palace
The chapel

Livadia Palace (

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the American delegation - the Russian delegation was housed in the Yusupov Palace, and the British in the Vorontsov Palace
some five miles distant. Today the palace houses a museum, but it is sometimes used for international summits.

History

Alexander III with his wife, 1895
Yalta Conference in February 1945

Formerly granted to

Ippolito Monighetti built a large palace, a small palace, and a church there. The residence was frequented by Alexander II of Russia, while his successor Alexander III
used to live (and died) in the smaller palace. It was perhaps disagreeable associations with the latter circumstance that led his son Nicholas to have both palaces demolished and replaced with a larger structure.

Around 1909, Nikolay Krasnov, Yalta's most fashionable architect, responsible for the grand ducal residences in Koreiz, was engaged to prepare plans for a new imperial palace. The Tsar's diary indicates that the design was much discussed in the Imperial Family; it was decided that all four façades of the palace should look different. After 17 months of construction, the new palace was inaugurated on 11 September 1911. In November Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna celebrated her 16th birthday at Livadia.

After the February Revolution in 1917, Nicholas's mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, fled to Livadia with some other members of the Imperial family. They were eventually rescued by the British ship HMS Marlborough, sent by the Dowager Empress's nephew, King George V.

During the

Deutsches Kreuz in Gold" (German Cross in Gold).[1]

The palace was once used as a mental institution, and is now a historical museum. Most of the historical furnishings have been lost, but anything that has been recovered can be seen for a small fee. In August 2007 the palace was recognized as a landmark of modern history by the Seven Wonders of Ukraine project. Ukrainian pop singer Sofia Rotaru, who celebrated her 60th birthday at the palace in the company of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and Moldavia – the second such meeting since the Yalta Conference – funded the restoration of Livadia Palace in 2008.[2]

Numerous academic conferences have been held at the palace. Palace staff actively publish their research. Visitors are particularly interested in the events of 1945.

Architecture

The Grand Livadia Palace, east façade with a Florentine tower, October 2006

The Livadia Palace is built of white Crimean

Bramantesque
windows, a "balcony-belvedere", and multiple bays with jasper vases. A gallery connects the palace with a neo-Byzantine church of the Exaltation of the Cross, built by Monighetti in 1866.

The palace contains 116 rooms, with interiors furnished in different styles. There are a

Pompeian vestibule, an English billiard-room, a Neo-baroque dining room, and a Jacob-style
study of maple wood, which elicited particular admiration of Nicholas II.

See also

References

  1. Verlorene Siege
    . 2000. 16 Auflage. Bonn. p.283-285
  2. ^ "Sofia Rotaru decided to take Livadia Palace in charge". Твой День. Retrieved 2007-12-28.

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