"Russian Influence"
The Ishak Pasha Palace has an extravagant feel to it and was definitely conceived more as a pleasure dome than as a defensive castle. Yet the Russians also occupied it on other occasions and they are blamed by the Turks for the blackened cooking residues that coat the walls of rooms deigned for more elegant puposes. They also run off with the gold-plated doors of the entrance during the 1917 invasion, and these are now in a museum in Moscow.
Ishak Pasha Palace, Eastern Turkey
"Russian Influence"
The Ishak Pasha Palace has an extravagant feel to it and was definitely conceived more as a pleasure dome than as a defensive castle. Yet the Russians also occupied it on other occasions and they are blamed by the Turks for the blackened cooking residues that coat the walls of rooms deigned for more elegant puposes. They also run off with the gold-plated doors of the entrance during the 1917 invasion, and these are now in a museum in Moscow.
Ishak Pasha Palace, Eastern Turkey