Petrovsky Palace stands in Moscow on Leningradsky Prospect, near Dynamo metro station. Catherine the Great commissioned it as a stopover between St. Petersburg and Moscow, and it is dated to 1780. Vasily Bazhenov first managed construction, and Matvey Kazakov, the chief architect, took over. Interior decoration was finished in 1783.
Catherine II stayed there in 1785 and 1787, and later monarchs used it before their coronations. In 1920 it passed to the Soviet Air Forces, and the Zhukovsky air academy moved in in 1923. Only fragments of the original survive, including the Round Hall, four vestibules, the main staircase and some furniture.
Since 2011 a hotel has occupied the first floor and the wings, and a museum the ground floor. The palace serves as the Reception House of the Moscow government.
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