🇱🇻 LATVIA 🇱🇻 The Facade of Rundāle Palace 🏰🏰🏰 Formerly Ruhenthal or Ruhendahl, Rundāle Palace was built in two periods, from 1736 until 1740 and from 1764 until 1768. It's one of the two major baroque palaces built for the Dukes of Courland in what is now Latvia. Catherine the Great presented the Palace to Count Valerian Zubov, the youngest brother of her lover Prince Platon Zubov, after Duchy of Courland and Semigallia was absorbed by the Russian Empire in 1795. (Catherine was over 60 and Platon was just 22; he was the most powerful man in the Russian Empire during the last years of her reign.) 🏰🏰🏰 #wednesday #instagarden #rundalepalace #latvia #europe_vacations #europeantour 🏰🏰🏰 #instagood #instamoment #instatravel #igtravel #travelingram #traveling #travel #traveler #wanderer #wanderlust #traveldiaries #travelislife #instafollow #instafollower #instafollowback #followbackinstantly #followforfollowback #follow4followback #followtofollow #follow2follow #followmefollowyou #followfollow #followforfollow #follow4followback (at Rundāle, Latvia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4QoKWqHrGc/?igshid=1gdm5umcz5nc8