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      🏛 Tauride Palace

      Шпалерная ул., 47

      Potemkin's palace by Starov (1780s): the State Duma met here, and today it houses the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly; inside only on tours by reservation, while the classical façade with its dome is visible from Shpalernaya.

      Tauride Palace
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      Tauride Palace
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      • The palace is named after the title "Tauride" that Potemkin received in 1787 for annexing Crimea.
      • About 400,000 roubles in gold were spent on its construction and decoration.
      • In spring 1791 Potemkin threw a lavish feast here, hoping to win back Catherine II's favour.
      • In 1797 Paul I gave the palace to the Horse Guards as barracks and had its furnishings carted off to the Mikhailovsky Castle.
      • In 1906–1910 the interiors were remodelled for the State Duma, and on 5 (18) January 1918 the Constituent Assembly met here.
      • Today the palace is the headquarters of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.

      Part of these routes

      • Tauride Garden and Smolny: the long loop
      • Smolny and Tauride Garden at night
      • Tauride Palace, Kikin Chambers and Smolny

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