Mariyinsky Palace
| Maryinsky Palace | |
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| Маріїнський палац | |
Front façade, 2007
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Location | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 50°26′54″N 30°32′15″E / 50.44833°N 30.53750°E |
| Construction started | 1744 |
| Completed | 1752 |
| Client |
Elizabeth of Russia (House of Romanov) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Bartolomeo Rastrelli |
Coordinates: 50°26′54″N 30°32′15″E / 50.44833°N 30.53750°E
Mariyinsky Palace (Ukrainian: Маріїнський палац, Mariyins'kyi palats) is the official ceremonial residence of the President of Ukraine in Kyiv and adjoins the neo-classical building of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine. It is a Baroque palace on the hilly bank of the Dnieper River.
The palace was ordered to be constructed in 1744 by the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, and was designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli, the most famous architect working in the Russian Empire at that time. One of the students of Rastrelli, Ivan Michurin, together with a group of other architects, completed the palace in 1752. Empress Elizabeth, however, did not live long enough to see the palace. The first royal figure to stay in the palace was Empress Catherine II, who visited Kiev in 1787. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the palace was the main residence of Governors-General.
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