Livadia Palace – Site of the 1945 Yalta Conference: Anyone
interested in WWII history will have heard of the 1945 Yalta (or
Crimean) Conference. It was here at the Livadia Palace that the
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met to negotiate how post-war
Europe was to be carved up. Livadia is a palace that’s filled
with history. The huge, stunning White Hall on the ground floor
is where the Big Three and their delegation met to agree that
the USSR would have the biggest influence over Eastern Europe in
exchange for keeping out of the Mediterranean. Imagine the
charged-up atmosphere of the place during the Conference! In
various rooms of the Palace there are lots of black and white
pictures capturing the proceedings during the Yalta Conference,
including the famous shot of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
taken in the courtyard. During the Conference, which ran over 8
days from February 4 – 11, 1945, the delegates of the allied
States participating in the Conference stayed in three palaces
in Southern Crimea. The U.