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Romanov Palace

The brick palace built in 1891 for Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich, exiled to Tashkent; today a reception house of the Foreign Ministry.

Ensembles1891About 20 minutes to see

About the place

Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich, a member of the imperial family sent away to Turkestan, had this palace built in 1891 to designs by V. S. Geintselman and A. L. Benois. It is a long two-storey building of grey-yellow brick with round towers on its flanks; his rooms were in the left wing and his wife's in the right. Bronze deer once lay on either side of the entrance steps.

His collection of paintings and marble sculpture from the palace is now in the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan. The building serves as a reception house for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so visitors see it from the street.

Why go

  • A landmark of Tashkent's Russian imperial period
  • The story of an exiled grand duke
  • His art collection is now in the State Museum of Arts

Sources (5)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.en.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.ru.wikipedia.org
  4. 4.uz.wikipedia.org
  5. 5.openstreetmap.org

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