Eugene sent me this postcard of the Mariinsky Palace in Kiev, Ukraine. There's also another palace with the same name located in St. Petersburg, Russia, but it was built a century after the one in Kiev.
The Mariinsky Palace was built it 1752 by the request of Empress Elizabeth. To this day, this baroquesque 2-storey building serves its festive and ceremonial functions for official presidential matters.
I've encountered a decade-old Ukrainian Weekly newspaper online and read that on March 21, 1999, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ukraine's then-President, Leonid Kuchma, signed a memorandum of mutual understanding to strengthen the ties between the two countries at the Mariinsky Palace.
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| Welcome to 1 of the many official cribs of the Ukrainian President |
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| Wheat ears stamp issued in 2004 |
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