Koreiz is a townlet in the Yalta region

Yalta municipality

Yalta city municipality , officially "the territory governed by the Yalta city council", also known as Greater Yalta is one of the 25 regions of Crimea...

 of Crimea

Crimea

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

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. The name of the town means "villages" in Greek

Greek language

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. The nearby spa of Miskhor was absorbed into Koreiz in 1958.

Koreiz is best known as the site of two palaces. The palace of Grand Duke Peter Nicolaievich of Russia

Grand Duke Peter Nicolaievich of Russia

Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia was a member of the Russian Imperial Family.-Early life and marriage:...

, known as Dulber

Dulber

Dulber is a palace in Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea, located in southern Ukraine. The palace of Grand Duke Peter Nicolaievich of Russia, known as Dulber , is an asymmetrical architectural extravanganza with crenellated walls, silver domes, and more than 100 rooms, inspired by the Mameluk...

 (dülber is Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar language

The Crimean Tatar language is the language of the Crimean Tatars. It is a Turkic language spoken in Crimea, Central Asia , and the Crimean Tatar diasporas in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria...

 for "beautiful"), is an asymmetrical architectural extravanganza with crenellated walls, silver domes, and more than 100 rooms, inspired by the Mameluk architecture of 15th-century Cairo

Cairo

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. This palace was built between 1895 and 1897.

The Yusupov Palace

Yusupov Palace (Crimea)

The Yusupov Palace is a palace located in the town of Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea of southern Ukraine. It was built for Prince Felix Yusupov in 1909 by an architect responsible for the imperial Livadia Palace in nearby Yalta...

 was built for Prince Felix Yusupov

Felix Yusupov

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston , was best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the faith healer who was said to have influenced decisions of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna.-Biography:...

 in 1909 by an architect responsible for the imperial Livadia Palace

Livadia Palace

Livadia Palace was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea in southern Ukraine. The Yalta Conference was held there in 1945, when the palace housed the apartments of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the American delegation...

 in nearby Yalta. The palace, whose style may be described as Moorish Revival

Moorish Revival

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, boasts a romantic park with exotic plants and a wine cellar founded by Prince Lev Galitzine in the 19th century. After the Russian Revolution of 1917

Russian Revolution of 1917

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, the palace was nationalised and served as Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

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's favourite dacha

Dacha

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, during the Yalta Conference

Yalta Conference

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and at other times.