Palace of Count Mordvinov

Built in the spirit of the Renaissance and resembles the Mediterranean villas of Italian nobles. The Mordvinov Palace was built on land acquired in 1794 by the first Russian naval minister, vice admiral, Count Nikolai Semenovich Mordvinov from Empress Catherine II for zealous service to the Fatherland. He named his estate a good wasteland, and also laid a park here, since 1870 became public. The construction of the palace was started in 1898 according to the project of St. Petersburg architect F. Nagel. The work was supervised by the architect O. Wegener. The palace in the Good wasteland appeared in 1901-1903 with the great-grandson of N. Mordvinov Alexandra Alexandrovich-the second. The Palace of the Mordvins was built in the spirit of the Renaissance and resembles the Mediterranean villas of Italian nobles. The materials for the building were gray limestone and Gurzuf green sandstone. In 1927, the estate of the Mordvinovs turned into a recreation center for the People's Commissariat of Naval Affairs. Five years later, he was reorganized into a branchGurzuf military sanatorium, and two years later the Yalta military sanatorium No. 1 of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA), which later became known as the Central Military Sanatorium of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Since 2000, the estate A good wasteland and a well-preserved palace of Mordvinov have become the Central Military Sanatorium of Yalta, located on the balance of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. At the end of 2010 the Mordvinov Palace was put up for sale. It is believed that this object - the most expensive real estate sold in the Crimea - for him asking for more than $ 22 million.