Senate Palace (President's Residency) (Moscow)
Russia /
Moscow /
Moscow /
Kreml
World
/ Russia
/ Moscow
/ Moscow
, 0 km from center (Москва)
World / Russia / Moscow City / Central
palace, presidential palace, Classicism, listed building / architectural heritage, 1780s construction
Moscow Kremlin Senate building (Russian: Сенат), commissioned by Catherine II of Russia, was designed and built by Matvey Kazakov in 1776-1787. The neoclassical building originally housed Governing Senate, the highest judiciary and legislative office of Russia. Currently, it houses Russian presidential administration.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin_Senate
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 55°45'11"N 37°37'7"E
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- Earlier the Middle Trading Rows 0.3 km
- Gostiny Dvor 0.4 km
- Section of the historic Kitai Gorod wall and towers 0.7 km
- The Polytechnic Museum (under revamp) 0.8 km
- Ilyinsky Public Garden 0.8 km
- Lubyanka Metro Station 0.9 km
- TsUM (Central Department Store) 0.9 km
- Headquarters of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (old building) 1.1 km
- Central Bank of Russia 1.2 km
- Red Square 0.2 km
- GUM 0.2 km
- Grand Kremlin Public Garden 0.3 km
- Taynitsky Garden 0.3 km
- Kremlin (Borovitsky) Hill 0.3 km
- Tsentralny Administrative Okrug 0.3 km
- Bely Gorod ('The White Town') 0.4 km
- Kitay-gorod 0.4 km
- Manezhnaya Square 0.4 km
- Tverskoy District 2 km