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Landmark Attractions In Ramon

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Ramon is an urban locality and the administrative center of Ramonsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: 8,354 ; 8,039 ; 8,729 .It was first mentioned in 1615. It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1938. In 1879 Tsar Alexander II gave the estate of Ramon to Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg and her husband Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg as a wedding gift; she set up industrial and agricultural enterprises, expanded the estate, and in the 1880s commissioned the building of Ramon Palace, which has survived and is now a Russian cultural landmark.
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  • 1. Palace of Oldenburg Ramon
    Ramon Palace, also known as Princess Oldenburg's Palace, is a red-brick neo-Gothic palace in Ramon, Russia. It was built in 1883–87 for Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg and her husband Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg. It is registered as an object of Russian cultural heritage. In 1879 Tsar Alexander II gave the estate of Ramon to Princess Eugenia and the Duke of Oldenburg as a wedding gift. In 1883 they commissioned construction of the palace, in red brick, in the style of an English Gothic castle with gatehouse. The architect is usually said to have been Christopher Neysler, but some sources attribute the design to Nicholas Benois. The building used foot bricks manufactured according to a traditional process involving peasants treading the clay into wood frames for ...
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