A rare snowfall blankets the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. Tsar Nicholas II built this palace. The Russian Imperial family along with members of Russia's aristocratic and noble families favoured the region for its Mediterranean climate and stunning natural beauty. Here they built beautiful palaces and elegant mansions overlooking the Black Sea. When the Revolution swept across Russia, it was the isolation of the region that allowed many of them to escape the advancing Red Terror into exile.

Livadia Palace

A view from one of the terraces of Livadia Palace.

Romanov, House of; 1909-15

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna In 1909, Nikolay Krasnov, who was responsible for the Yousupoff Palace in Koreiz, was engaged to design a new imperial palace in Livadia (before that, there had been…

The Empress's Boudoir at the Livadia Palace

The Grand Livadia Palace was designed in Italian Neo-Renaissance style with elements of Western Gotic, Arab East and Byzantine architecture by architect N.Krasnov (1864 - 1939). It was erected as summer residence for the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

Livadia Palace- favourite residence of the last Russian imperial family,interiors and exteriors.