Faceted Palace

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Faceted Palace (part of Kremlin), or Granovitaya palata was built by order of Tsar Ivan III in 1491. It is by right the oldest civil building in Moscow. It was designed by two Italian architects, Marco Fryazin and Pietro Solari, and named after the distinctive facade made of faceted stone. Since XV century its hall was used for ceremonial dinner-parties and other solemn occasions, and now it is one of the President’s ceremonial halls. The Red Staircase siding with the southern side of the palace, a magnificent limestone construction, was one of the first monuments to be reconstructed after the Soviet times. Before its destruction in 1930, Russian tsars and emperors used to pass it on their way to crowning in the Assumption Cathedral.

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