As befits a metropolitan city with more than a thousand-year history, Kiev has quite a few palaces, and therefore parks. It is known that the first palace was built in the city in the 10th century for Vladimir the Great, and this is confirmed by archaeologists, who in 2009 opened its foundations near the Landscape Alley. Of course, in Kiev were located the residence of Yaroslav the Wise, and the rich boyars.
The Mongol invasion slowed down the development of Kiev for a long time, and new palaces that did not have a defense function began to appear only in the 16th-17th centuries. From that time, a two-story building on Podol in the style of Ukrainian Baroque, which is considered the estate of Hetman Mazepa, reached us. It now houses the hetman museum. In the same area, on Khorava Street, there is another example of this architecture – the so-called “Peter’s House”.
From the Baroque and Rococo eras, the Pechersk Mariinsky and Klovsky Palaces have been well preserved. In the first, the President gives ceremonial receptions, and in the second, the museum of the history of Kiev was located. And now he is preparing to take the Supreme Court of Ukraine.
In the second half of the XIX century, Kiev experienced an architectural boom. New tenement houses, theaters, administrative buildings, including palaces, were built. Especially distinguished the most prosperous district Lipok. Count Vorontsov, the Kiev governor, Tereshchenko and Brodsky, sugar producers, had their estates here. On the street Shelkovichnaya preserved many beautiful estates of wealthy Kiev, none of whom are like the other.
