Rundāle Palace (Latvian: Rundāles pils; German: Schloss Ruhental, formerly also Ruhenthal and Ruhendahl) is the most important baroque palace in Latvia, situated at Pilsrundāle, 12 km ( 7 miles ) west of Bauska. Latvian language (latviešu valoda is the official state language of Latvia. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Latvia ( Latvija officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region. Bauska ( is a Town in Bauska County, in the Zemgale region of southern Latvia. It was constructed in the 1730s to a design by Bartolomeo Rastrelli as a summer residence of Ernst Johann von Biron, the duke of Courland. Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (Russian Франче́ско Бартоломе́о Растре́лли ( Ernst Johann von Biron (Ernests Johans Bīrons Эрнст Иоганн Бирон &ndash) was a Baltic German Duke of Courland and Semigallia Courland (Kurzeme Kurland Latin: Curonia / Couronia; Kuršas Kuramaa Kurlandia Курляндия Курляндія Kuurinmaa is one of the historical Following Biron's fall from grace, the palace stood empty until the 1760s, when Rastrelli returned to complete its interior decoration.
After Courland was absorbed by the Russian Empire in 1795, Catherine the Great presented the palace to her lover, Prince Zubov, who spent his declining years there. Courland (Kurzeme Kurland Latin: Curonia / Couronia; Kuršas Kuramaa Kurlandia Курляндия Курляндія Kuurinmaa is one of the historical The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya Catherine II, called Catherine the Great (Екатерина II Великая Yekaterina II Velikaya;) reigned as Empress of Russia for 34 years Zubov (Зу́бов was a Russian noble family which rose to the highest offices of state in the 1790s when Platon Zubov succeeded Count Orlov and His young widow, Thekla Walentinowicz, a local landowner's daughter, remarried Count Shuvalov, thus bringing the palace to the Shuvalov family, with whom it remained until the Russian Revolution of 1917. Shuvalov (Шува́лов is a Russian noble family which although documented since the 16th century, rose to distinction during the reign of Empress See also Russian Revolution (1905 The Russian Revolution of 1916 refers to a series of popular revolutions in Russia, and the events surrounding them
The palace is one of the major tourist destinations in Latvia. It is also used for the accommodation of notable guests, such as the leaders of foreign nations. The palace and the surrounding gardens are now a museum. A formal garden in the Western gardening tradition is a neat and ordered Garden laid out in carefully planned geometric and symmetric lines
External links
- The Rundāle Palace Museum website.
- Rundāle Palace presented by Castles on the Web photoarchive
- Rundāle Palace Stock Photography
- The local tourist office in Bauska
- Rundāle Palace is at coordinates Coordinates:
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