Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
The Romanov Palace, built for Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (1850 – 1918, a grandson of Nicholas I), by architects V.S Heinzelmann and A.L Benua in 1891. The palace is decorated with ornamental turrets and openwork lattices. There are two sculptures of dogs over the entrance of the building and bronze deer are on both sides of the stairs. Nowadays, the palace of Duke Romanov is used as a Reception House of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Sun Jun, 2013