📰 Small Nicholas Palace

The Small Nicholas Palace was a three-storey neoclassical building situated within the Moscow Kremlin, at the corner of Ivanovskaya Square. Constructed in 1775 as the residence of the head of the Moscow Eparchy, it was later converted into the official Moscow residence of the Imperial family. Until the construction of the Grand Kremlin Palace between 1838 and 1849, it served as the principal residence of the Russian monarchs during their stays in Moscow. The palace was particularly associated with Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich, the future Emperor Nicholas I, and remained closely linked to the imperial household throughout the nineteenth century.