Catherine Palace

The Catherine Palace (Russian: Екатерининский дворец) is a Neoclassical residence of Catherine II of Russia on the bank of the Yauza River in Lefortovo, Moscow. It should not be confused with the much more famous Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo.

The residence is also known as the Golovin Palace, after its first owner, Count Fyodor Golovin, the first Chancellor of the Russian Empire. After his death Empress Anna commissioned Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli to replace the Golovin Palace with a Baroque residence known as Annenhof. This was Anna's preferred residence. It consisted of two wooden two-storey buildings, the Summer Palace and the Winter Palace.

Annenhof was abandoned after a fire in 1746. Catherine II, who found both edifices rather old-fashioned and dilapidated, ordered their demolition in the 1760s. After 1773 Karl Blank, Giacomo Quarenghi and Francesco Camporesi were the architects employed to supervise the construction of a Neoclassical residence in Lefortovo. Emperor Paul, known for his dislike of his mother's palaces, converted the residence into barracks.

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Catherine Palace steht weltweit auf Platz 1.961 von 3.691 im Burgen-Bekanntheitsranking des Atlas und Nr. 55 der 66 in Russland verzeichneten. Gegründet 1797, ist es älter als 14% der datierten Objekte des Atlas — eines von 238 Atlas-Objekten, die im 18. Jahrhundert gegründet wurden. Sehen Sie im Burgen-Statistik, wie Russland abschneidet.

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