Livadiya, Crimea
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| native_name = Ливадия
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| coordinates = {{coord|44|28|15|N|34|8|38|E|region:UA|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_m = 30
| population_total = 1074
| population_as_of = 2014|
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 98655, 98656|
| area_code = +380-654
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File:Yalta livadiapalace.jpg used to rival the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka as the most luxurious residence in Crimea.]]
Livadiya ({{langx|uk|Лівадія|Livadiia}}; {{langx|ru|Ливадия}}; {{crh|Livadiya|Ливадия}}; {{Langx|el|Λιβαδιά}}) is an urban-type settlement in Crimea. It is located {{convert|3|km}} west of Yalta. Population: {{Crimea-census2014|1,074|punct=.}}
History
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.{{cite web|language=Russian|url=http://www.livadia.crimea.ua/|title=Official website of Livadiya}} {{cite web|url=http://www.labroskatsonis.gr/EKDHLOSEIS/2004/2004_200xronia/synedrio.htm|language=Greek|publisher=Official web page of the Lambros Katsonis Society of the Livadians ({{lang|el|Σύλλογος Λεβαδέων "Ο Λάμπρος Κατσώνης")}}|trans-title=Events - Activities|title=Εκδηλώσεις - Δραστηριότητες|author=Panos Stamou|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222155640/http://www.labroskatsonis.gr/EKDHLOSEIS/2004/2004_200xronia/synedrio.htm|archivedate=2014-02-22}} {{cite web|trans-title=Approaching the historic person through archival sources: The case of Lampros Katsonis|script-title=el:Προσέγγιση ιστορικής προσωπικότητας μέσα από Αρχειακές πηγές: Περίπτωση Λάμπρου Κατσώνη|url=http://www.hecucenter.ru/old/kerie/StamouGr.doc|author=Panos Stamou|language=Greek|format=DOC|publisher=Hellenic Cultural Center (Moscow)|date=c. 2007}} See also the Lambros Katsonis articles in the Russian and Ukrainian language Wikipedia, respectively.
= Summer residence of the Romanov (1861 - 1917) =
{{See also|Livadia Palace|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 tuberculosis. The event was particularly loved by the empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.
= Later use =
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.
Namesakes
A minor planet 3006 Livadia discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after the suburb.[https://books.google.com/books?hl=ru&q=3006+Livadia+1979 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - p.247]
File:Alexander III of Russia with family at Small Palace of Livadia.jpg|Tsar Alexander III with family in Livadia, circa 1890
File:Romanovscropped1909.jpg|Photo of Tsar Nicholas II's children at the Livadia Palace, ca. 1909
File:White Flower Day Festival - Romanov-OTMAA - 1912 (9 of n).jpg|White Flower Day 1912 (May 3, 1912). The grand duchesses Anastasia and her sister Maria are selling white flowers to people.
File:RR5115-0114R.jpg|Architect Nikolai Krasnov, commemorative coin
File:Yalta summit 1945 with Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin.jpg|First Yalta summit, February 1945
File:Ливадийский дворец, Крым.jpg|The main facade of the royal palace
File:Ливадийский дворец. Итальянский дворик 01.jpg|Italian courtyard
File:Виноградники ГП Ливадия.jpg|Vineyards in Livadia
References
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External links
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{{Yalta Municipality}}
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Category:Urban-type settlements in Crimea
Category:Seaside resorts in Russia
Category:Seaside resorts in Ukraine
Category:Rural settlements in Crimea
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