Воронцовский дворец в Одессе - шедевр архитектуры

Abstract

The Vorontsov’s Palace in Odessa is the masterpiece of architecture. Besides architectural and historical role it has a great memorial importance. It joins us with the name of a man of European glory. The Field-Marshal General Mikhail Vorontsov (1782-1856) took part in the Patriotic War of 1812 and was the Governor-General of Province and Vicegerent of the Caucasus. The project of the Palace was presented by architect F. Boffo in 1824. The building of the edifice was finished in 1829. Vorontsov’s contemporary professor N. Murzakevich wrote about the influence of British artistic-aesthetic traditions upon the architecture of this Palace. An art historian Leonid Timofeev in virtue of comparative research suggested that the author of the project was a well-known English architect Thomas Harrison (1744-1829), who was working in the late Classic style. Count M. S. Vorontsov indirectly confirms this hypothesis in his petition to Odessa’s Building Committee in 1822. Thomas Harrison was personally-known to Vorontsov’s father, who was the ambassador in England. The Vorontsov’s Palace in Odessa is in need of scientific restoration. Palace and park Ensemble of Count M. S. Vorontsov estate in Odessa can become an attractive centre in the system of cultural tourism.