Massandra Palace. Yalta
Resembling a French chateau, the Massandra Palace originally built for Tzar Alexander III, but he's died in 1894, before it was finished in 1902. Later Massandra Castle was used by last Russian Tsar Nicolas II as a hunting lodge. In Soviet time it was Stalin's summer dacha.
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