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Kuznetsov Palace description and photos - Crimea: Foros. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Kuznetsov Palace is located in a picturesque place in the Crimean resort town of Foros, 40 kilometers from Yalta. The palace was built from 1834 to 1889. in several stages.

The owner of these places, merchant A. Kuznetsov, who was also called the "tea" or "porcelain" king, began to build the palace and park complex. Kuznetsov and his wife were sick with tuberculosis, so they spent a long time in Foros, breathing fresh and clean sea air. For more comfortable living conditions, the merchant decided to build a palace here. The building was designed by the architect Billiang. The two-story building was built in the style of Russian classicism, and was distinguished by its severity and simplicity of forms. However, there are beautiful balconies, large windows, and stone facades. Unlike the outer walls, the interior of this palace was quite rich. Oak doors, marble fireplaces, parquet floors, as well as 15 magnificent landscapes by the artist Y. Klever have survived to this day. These wall panels look like a mosaic.

No less unique is the adjoining park, founded in 1834. The forest that already grew here became the basis for its creation. The park, on one side adjoining the foot of Mount Foros, on the other ends with a steep sea coast. More than 200 species of various trees and shrubs grow here. These are palms, magnolias, cedars, sequoias, firs, cypresses, pines, pine trees, and so on. In the middle of the park, there is a real "paradise" with a beautiful cascade of six small artificial lakes. On the maps, Foros Park was marked in the first half of the 19th century, then this place was owned by Prince Golitsyn. After that the merchant A. Kuznetsov rebuilt it. In 1896 the estate passed into the possession of the industrialist G. Ushkov. In 1916, in his house, the singer F. Chaliapin and the writer M. Gorky worked on a book about Chaliapin entitled "Pages from my life." Since 1979, the building has been an architectural monument of national importance. Today Kuznetsovsky Palace belongs to the Foros sanatorium, where vacationers can read books, play billiards and plunge into the past.

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