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The Kadriorg Palace |
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| Title: | The Kadriorg Palace |
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| Image number: | DTT00022 |
| Author: | Toomas Tuul |
| Related keywords: | Tallinn, building, mansion, facade, Kadriorg, Baroque, palace |
| Related categories: | Architecture, Manors and castles, Architectural sights, Travel, Estonia |
| Usage rights: | Advertising free |
| Description: | The Kadriorg palace and park were founded in Tallinn by the Russian tsar Peter I. According to the designs of the architect Niccolo Michetti, the palace was built after the Italian villas, consisting of a main building and of two annexes. The park was named Kadriorg (Catherine's Valley) after the empress Catherine I. Most of the Russian rulers, from Peter's daughter Elizabeth, to the last Romanov emperor Nicholas II, have visited this imperial summer residence. In 1928 it was reorganized into the Art Museum of Estonia. And in 2000, the Foreign Art Museum, branch of the Art Museum of Estonia, was opened in the renovated palace |