Mariinskiy Palace in Kiev

Adress of the sight: 5-a Grushevskogo Str., Kiev, Ukraine.

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Mariinskiy Palace is the small one-storeyed palace in Kiev on the high right coast of the Dnieper. It is situated near the building of the Verkhovna Rada and is the ceremonial residence of the Ukrainian president.

The palace in the Imperial garden was founded by request of empress Elizabeth in 1744. The project in Baroque style was developed by her court architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Under the leadership of Muscovite Ivan Michurin, and also group of other architects, the palace was erected by 1752.

The customer didn’t manage to visit the palace. Ekaterina II who visited Kiev in 1787, was the first imperial person who has stopped in Mariinskiy Palace. On February 14, she accepted here the Venezuelan politician Francisco Miranda, future liberator from the Spanish colonial system.

In late XVIII and early XIX century the palace was the residence of governor generals of the Kiev province. In 1889 in the Imperial garden at Mariinsk the palace D. Morris identified a new sort of a cocaine bush — Erythroxylum novogranatense, so-called Colombian or trukhilski coca.