Усадьба Ореанда, Крым / Oreanda Manor, Crimea: 1837-1913

Россия на дореволюционных фотографиях Усадьба Ореанда, (Нижняя Ореанда), Крым, Большая Ялта. Фото эссе 1837-1913 Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs Oreanda Manor (Lower Oreanda), Crimea A Photo essay 1837-1913 Музыка: Времена года, - Октябрь (Осенняя песня) Music: From the Seasons, - October (Autumn Song) by P. Tchaikovsky In 1837, Emperor Nicholas I gave his wife Empress Alexandra Fedorovna the Lower Oreanda estate, which he inherited from his brother, Emperor Alexander I. In the years 1842-1852. the construction of the first imperial palace complex in Crimea in Lower Oreanda is underway by the architect A. Shtakenschneider. The first building in the palace complex (1843) was a beautiful white-stone rotunda. She crowned one of the cliffs of Oreanda. The rotunda was executed in the “Neo-Greek” style and consists of eight seven-meter columns of the Doric order, carved from the Kerch piece stone of the best quality with excellent study of capitals, architraves, cornices. The rotunda immediately became the hallmark of the royal estate. A staircase of several hundred steps led to her from the palace. Wonderful views of Yalta and the South Coast opened from the rotunda. After a fire in the palace in 1882, the rotunda became the only architectural object left over from the original palace complex. Since the beginning of the XX century, it has been the most visited place on the southern coast of Crimea. Emperor Nicholas II, who often visited the rotunda with his family and retinue, especially liked walking from Livadia along the Horizontal Path.