Livadia Palace
Livadia Palace Museum, Livadia Palace and Park Museum-Reserve
Crimea, Yalta
The Grand Livadia Palace - the former summer residence of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II - is the main attraction of Yalta.
The Livadia architectural and park complex is one of the outstanding monuments of architectural and park art. The palace was built according to the project of the remarkable Yalta architect, Academician N.P. Krasnov (1865–1939) in the style of the Italian Renaissance.
The Livadia Palace Ensemble, in addition to the Grand Palace, includes the retinue building, the palace of the Minister of the Court, Baron Frederiks, built simultaneously with the palace, the palace church in the name of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built in 1872, and the Italian courtyard. By the way, the gates of the inner Italian courtyard, as N.P. Krasnov testifies, are “of Italian work, taken out of Verona in 1750,” and not made by Ural craftsmen, as stated in the guidebooks of recent years and the stories of guides.
In 1925, a sanatorium for peasants was opened in the former royal palace, later, in 1931, it was transformed into a climatic treatment plant.
On February 4-11, 1945, three months before the victory over Nazi Germany, the Crimean (Yalta) conference of the heads of governments of the three states of the anti-Hitler coalition - the USSR, the USA and Great Britain, was held in the Great (White) Hall of the Palace, at which the "Declaration on liberated Europe", the decision to create the UN and other documents that were of great importance for the fate of the world. During the conference, the palace was the residence of the President of the United States of America, F. Roosevelt.
