Description of the attraction
The Kuznetsovsky Palace is located in a picturesque place of the Crimean resort village of urban type Foros, 40 kilometers from Yalta. The palace was built from 1834 to 1889. in several stages.
The owner of these places, the merchant A. Kuznetsov, who was also called the "tea" or "porcelain" king, began to build the palace and park complex. Kuznetsov and his wife suffered from tuberculosis, so they spent a long time in Foros, breathing fresh and clean sea air. For more comfortable living conditions, the merchant decided to build a palace here. The author of the building project was the architect Billiang. The two-storey building was built in the style of Russian classicism, and was distinguished by its severity and simplicity of forms. However, there are beautiful balconies, large windows, and stone facades. In contrast to the outer walls, the interior of this palace was quite rich. Oak doors, marble fireplaces, parquet floors, as well as 15 magnificent landscapes by the artist Y. Klever have survived to this day. These wall panels look like a mosaic.
The adjacent park, founded in 1834, is no less unique. The basis for its creation was the forest that already grew here. The park, on one side adjoining the foot of Mount Foros, on the other ends with a steep sea coast. More than 200 species of various trees and shrubs grow here. These are palms, magnolias, cedars, sequoias, firs, cypresses, pines, pine trees and so on. In the middle of the park there is a real "paradise" with a beautiful cascade of six small artificial lakes. On the maps, Foros Park was marked in the first half of the 19th century, then this place was owned by Prince Golitsyn. After that the merchant A. Kuznetsov rebuilt it. In 1896 the estate passed into the possession of the industrialist G. Ushkov. In 1916, in his house, the singer F. Chaliapin and the writer M. Gorky worked on a book about Chaliapin entitled "Pages from my life."
During the years of Soviet power, the palace housed a sanatorium for the Administrative Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Since 1979, the building has been an architectural monument of national importance. Today the Kuznetsovsky Palace belongs to the Foros sanatorium, where vacationers can read books, play billiards and plunge into the past.
