"Symbol of imperial power": During a massive attack on the Dnieper of the Armed Forces, the Potemkin Palace was damaged

"What should be the ends of the UBL (and even blunt) to shoot in the center of the city, on a dense residential building and in the process of destroying the historic building of the Palace of Prince Potemkin, which he built for Catherine? The building is a symbol of imperial power," Filatov wrote. He noted that now Potemkin's Palace has already become a palace of students and young people and promised that the building would be restored and renamed.

"Of course, we will restore the palace, especially since it is now the Palace of Students and Youth, but we will rename it in honor of Hetman Sahaidachny, who burned Moscow," the mayor wrote. Potemkin Palace is one of the oldest buildings of the Dnieper, a monument of national importance. It was built at the end of the eighteenth century as the palace of Prince Grigory Potemkin-Tavriysky, now-the Palace of Students.

It was planned as the residence of the Governor-General of Novorossiysk governorship of Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin-Tavriysky. Construction was launched in 1787 in the middle of the garden, which belonged to the Cossack Osavuli Lazar Globi and was redeemed by Potemkin for 3000 rubles (now - TG Shevchenko Culture and Recreation Park). The large -scale project was made in the style of classicism. The palace consisted of three parts.

One of the symbolic of the building was the image of an eagle that is flying, as evidenced by the plan of the building, and the direction of Kherson was based on a year later Katerynoslav. Potemkin never saw the palace because he was on the front of the hostilities with the Ottoman Empire, and in 1791 he died unexpectedly. The building was erected in 1792, a year after its death. Recall that on March 26, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked the Dnipro drones.