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The Vorontsov Palace ( uk, Воронцовський палац; russian: Воронцовский дворец) is a 19th-century palace and
The Vorontsov Palace ( uk, Воронцовський палац; russian: Воронцовский дворец) is a 19th-century palace and colonnade
In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building. Paired or multiple pairs of columns are normally employed in a colonnade which can be straight or curv ...
in Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern sho ...
, Ukraine, at the end of the Prymorskyi Boulevard pedestrian walkway.
History
The buildings were built between 1827 and 1830 by the Sardinian-born architect Francesco Boffo for Russian Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, one of the governor-generals of the Odessa region. The palace was built on the site where the Turkish fortress of Hajibey used to be. Palace complex includes main building, stables, colonnade and two lions, which used to stay near the gate of a main entrance.https://www.odessitclub.org/publications/almanac/alm_21/alm_21_25-38.pdf Vorontsov was so impressed with Boffo's work, that he contracted Boffo to design thePotemkin Stairs
The Potemkin Stairs or Potemkin Steps ( uk, Потьо́мкінські схо́ди, translit=Potiomkinski skhody) are a giant stairway in Odesa, Ukraine. They are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are ...
. p. 133, 337 p. 119. p. 39 ''The main corpus was erected in 1824-27, and already in 1828 splendid balls and celebrations took place inside. Construction was completed in 1829.''
In 1906 it became an engineering school. During this time, next to the former palace was Lloyd's Travel Agency where the city's elite could purchase tickets for their trips abroad.Herlihy p. 263
In 1917 it was the headquarters of the Soviet Red Guards
Red Guards () were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a Red Guard lea ...
, and in March 1917 the first Soviet of Workers' and Sailors' Deputies met in the building. p. 47.
In 1936 the Vorontsov Palace was acquired by the Young Pioneers, and renamed the Children's Palace.
The present day palace is only the front part of the original structure, the less valuable part of the complex, the Orlov wing was torn down. The Orlov wing was mainly apartments and outbuildings—nicknamed the "Orlovsky outhouse", it stretched from today's Mother-in-Law's Bridge.Odessa, An Almanac
In the second half of the 20th century, the palace had two fires.
In 1994 sculptor Mikhail Reva built a fountain called "Day and Night" in the courtyard. The fountain has not had any water since 1999.
See also
* Vorontsov Palace (disambiguation), list of similarly named palaces built for the Vorontsov familyNotes
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