The Ruthenian Court ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Руски двор, Ruski dvor, ) in

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is a representative building constructed as a summer residence for the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci. The name of the building is sometimes mistranslated as a Russian Palace due to the archaic homonyms used for the possessive adjectives related to the local

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(predominantly

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community) and ethnic

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The building was completed in 1780 and granted to the eparchy by the royal decree of

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. It was protected as a cultural heritage building in 1967 and received the designation Immovable Cultural Heritage of Great Importance in 1991. A female monastery was opened in the building in the 1930s, and during

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, it served as a hospital for

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, which had a stronghold on the nearby

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