Architecture in Russia:
Tauride Palace / Taurida Palace
(Tavrichesky Palace)
St. Petersburg
I.E. Starov, architect
1783-1789
Elsewhere in the world, Russia
was mocked for crude, exuberant expressions of Western architecture. When she
became Empress, Catherine the Great wanted to introduce more dignified styles.
She had studied engravings of classical architecture and new European buildings,
and she made neoclassicism the official court style.
When Gregory Ptemkin (Potyomkin-Tavrichesky)
was named Prince of Tauride, Catherine the Great hired the noted Russian architect
I. E. Starov to design a palace using themes from ancient Greece and Rome. Completed
in 1789, the Tauride Palace was starkly neoclassical with symmetrical rows of
columns.
The Palace was
reconstructed in the beginning of the twentieth century. Now called Tavrichesky
Palace, it serves as headquarters for the InterParliamentary Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
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