Tauride Palace

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Tauride Palace is a historic neoclassical building in Saint Petersburg that served as a key political center, notably housing the Russian Provisional Government during the 1917 revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic building
neoclassical palace
architect Ivan Starov NERFINISHED
architecturalStyle Neoclassical architecture
builtFor Grigory Potemkin
surface form: Prince Grigory Potemkin-Tauricheski
cityDistrict Smolninsky District
commissionedBy Grigory Potemkin
constructionEnd 1789
constructionStart 1783
country Russia
currentUse headquarters of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the CIS
museum and exhibition space
venue for official receptions
floorCount 2
hasFeature extensive gardens
grand columned portico
large central dome
hasFunction educational and cultural center
parliamentary conference venue
hasHall Duma Hall
Hall of Columns
surface form: Large Column Hall
heritageStatus cultural heritage monument of federal significance in Russia
housed Petrograd Soviet
Russian Provisional Government
laterFunction imperial residence
political center
locatedIn St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg

Pavlovsk palace-and-park ensemble
surface form: Tauride Garden
material stone
namedAfter Taurida Oblast
surface form: Taurida (Crimea)
near Neva River
Smolny Institute
notableFor one of the earliest and largest neoclassical palaces in Saint Petersburg
role in the 1905 Russian Revolution
role in the February Revolution of 1917
originalFunction private residence
ownedBy Government of the Russian Federation
patron Catherine II of Russia
surface form: Catherine the Great
significantEvent meetings of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly (1918)
sessions of the Petrograd Soviet in 1917
significantPeriod seat of Russian legislative bodies in the early 20th century
stylePeriod late 18th century Russian Neoclassicism
surroundedBy Tauride Garden
usedAs meeting place of the First State Duma
meeting place of the Second State Duma
seat of the State Duma of the Russian Empire
usedBy Russian Provisional Government
usedDuring Russian Revolution
surface form: Russian Revolution of 1917

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