Vorontsov Palace

The Vorontsov Palace is a 19th century palace and colonnade in Odessa, Ukraine, on the quit of the Primo sky Boulevard pedestrian walkway. The buildings had been built between 1827 and 1830 by way of the Sardinian born architect Francesco Boffo for Russian Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, one of the governor generals of the Odessa vicinity. Vorontsov selected to build his city palace immediate wherein the previous governor popular Richelieu's humble house had as soon as stood. Vorontsov was so impressed with Boffo work, that he gotten smaller Boffo to layout the Potemkin Stairs.

In 1906, it has become an engineering school. During this time, next to the former palace changed into Lloyd's Travel Agency wherein the metropolis's elite may want to purchase tickets for their trips abroad. In 1917 it was the headquarters of the Soviet Red Guards and in March 1917 the primary Soviet of Workers' and Sailors' Deputies met inside the constructing. In 1936 the Vorontsov Palace was obtained by using the Young Pioneers, and renamed the Children's Palace. The present day palace is best the front a part of the original structure, the less treasured a part of the complicated the Orlov wing became torn down.