Petersburg residence of Prince Grigory Potemkin-Tauride. Tauride Palace was erected by order of Catherine II for her favorite, Prince GA Potemkin. On the construction and decoration of the palace is allocated about 400 000 gold. The palace takes its name from the title of Prince of Tauride, which was granted the temporary worker in 1787, after joining the Crimea to the Russian Empire (Tauris). One of his jewelry is antique sculpture Venus Tauride, arrived in Russia under Peter I.
After the death of Potemkin Catherine decided to take residence in the former favorite of the treasury. The property was transferred to the Tauride Palace Mikhailovsky Castle and the palace itself has been cast under the Horse Guards barracks.
In the late XIX and early XX centuries. in the Tauride Palace organized public events, balls and other celebrations.
After the beginning of the February Revolution in the Tauride Palace settled the Provisional Duma Committee and then Provisional Government, and here came the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ Deputies. Before moving in August 1917 in the Smolny at the Tauride Palace in session the Central Executive Committee of Soviets.