ROYAL PALACES

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Power, court and palace chronology.

1487–1491
Faceted Chamber built for Ivan III's Grand Princely Palace
1635–1636
Terem Palace built for Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich
1714 onward
Peterhof develops as grand imperial summer residence
1716–1720
Peter I's wooden palace at Strelna built
1754–1762
Present Winter Palace constructed for Empress Elizabeth
1766–1781
Gatchina Palace built for Grigory Orlov
1782–1786
Pavlovsk Palace built by Charles Cameron
1792 onward
Alexander Palace begun by Giacomo Quarenghi
1797–1801
Mikhailovsky Castle built for Paul I
1799
Priory Palace completed
1838–1850
Grand Kremlin Palace built under Nicholas I
1881
Alexander III makes Gatchina a principal imperial residence
1905 onward
Alexander Palace becomes the main family home of Nicholas II
1917
Imperial palace system ends as living monarchy
17th century
Alexei Mikhailovich develops Kolomenskoye wooden palace
1671–1682
Izmailovo palace complex built on artificial island
1711–1727
Grand Menshikov Palace built at Oranienbaum
1743
Oranienbaum granted to heir Peter Feodorovich and Catherine Alekseevna
1758–1762
Palace of Peter III built
1762–1768
Chinese Palace built for Catherine II
1826–1829
Alexandria estate and Cottage Palace created
1838–1860
Farm transformed into palace for Alexander II
late 19th century
Lower Dacha created for Nicholas II at Alexandria
1885–1891
Palace of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich built by Maximilian Messmacher
1887–1889
Former Stieglitz mansion adapted as residence of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich
1890
Romanov summer residence built at Borjomi by W. Schweier
1892–1895
Likani Palace developed in the Borjomi resort landscape

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