Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | (occupied by Russia) |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous republic |
Subdivision Name1: | Crimea (de jure) |
Timezone: | MSK |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Official Name: | Livadiia |
Native Name: | Ливадия |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Yalta Raion (de jure) |
Pushpin Map: | Crimea |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Livadiia within Crimea |
Pushpin Map1: | Yalta |
Pushpin Map Caption1: | Location of Livadiia |
Coordinates: | 44.4708°N 34.1439°W |
Elevation M: | 30 |
Population Total: | 1074 |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 98655, 98656 |
Area Code: | +380-654 |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Cfb |
Subdivision Type3: | Federal subject |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Crimea (de facto) |
Subdivision Name4: | Yalta Municipality (de facto) |
Livadiya (uk|Лівадія|Livadiia; ru|Ливадия; ;) is an urban-type settlement in Crimea. It is located west of Yalta. Population:
A minor Crimean Tatar settlement in the Middle Ages, Livadiya was named thus by Lambros Katsonis, a Greek revolutionary and Imperial Russian Army officer, after Livadeia, Greece, the town he was born in, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Katsonis had been granted an estate there by Empress Catherine II, which he named thus.[1]
See also: Livadia Palace and White Flower Day. The estate later passed to the possession of the Potocki family and then, in 1861, it became a summer residence of the Russian tsars. Emperor Alexander III of Russia died there in 1894.
The Livadia Palace, built in 1910–11, architect Nikolai Krasnov, is now a museum. It was formerly a summer palace of the last Russian Imperial family.
One of the most important events held in this town by the Romanov dynasty was the White Flower Day charity event that took place mainly in this little town from 1911 to 1917, that aimed at gathering donations to support people having tubercolosis. The event was particularly loved by the empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.
In 1945, it served as the meeting place of the Yalta Conference and residence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Conference. Nowadays, Livadiia is known primarily for producing wine and is also a noted health resort.
A minor planet 3006 Livadia discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after the suburb.[2]