Grand Imperial Vikla Palace

The **Grand Imperial Vikla Palace** (Russian: Большой Императорский дворец Викла, tr. *Bol'shoy Imperatorskiy dvorets Vikla*), simply known as the **Vikla Palace**, is the official residence of the Emperor of the Eurasian Empire and the imperial family. It is situated in the center of Vikla, Croatia, to which it earns its name. The Palace was famously acknowledged to be found at the southeast of the Great Vikla Woods and had been closed to the shores of the Adriatic Sea.

## Description

The Grand Imperial Vikla Palace was considered by the world to be the grandest and largest palace ever built by mankind. It is also considered to be the world's largest royal domain with 9,272,058 square meters (99,803,602 square feet), and the very palace itself has a total floor area of 550,000 square meters (5,920,151 square feet). It also hosted the most luxurious and beautiful garden palace of the Alexia and Astilla Gardens that comprise 732,397 square meters (7,883,451 square feet) of the royal domain; the others are of the St. Andrew's Square and the Garden of Anna comprising 209,682 square meters (2,257,000 square feet) combined, and the rest of the ground features amenities that are usually seen in a city for the private use of the imperial family.

The Palace was a three-story building divided into three "palaces" which were connected by loggias: the **Oriental Palace**, the **Occidental Palace**, and the **Central Palace**. Each palace has their corresponding divisions and wings, while the Central Palace is considered to be where the associated rooms for the Court's formal function and used is. In total, the palace has 5,538 suite rooms; 1,396 offices and study rooms; and 27 ballrooms. Each palace as well has its own set of guards, maids, chefs, and attendants that were regulated by the Central Palace. Only the Central Palace, however, has state function rooms and has sheltered officials named by the imperial family.

## History

Ever since he was a child, the Russian weather doesn't favor to the liking of the aging Emperor Yaroslav IV that he ordered the designing and construction of a palace somewhere south that remains in the heart of the Eurasian Empire. The Court agreed that the island of Vikla in Croatia will be the best location; being close to the Adriatic Sea with a weather that will be within the liking of the Emperor.

Emperor Yaroslav IV commissioned the imperial architect, Pavel Afanasovich Bazhenov, for his perspective regarding his idea with the palace. He wanted it to be his official residence and have the idea of being the central force of power for the empire. He wanted it to respect the culture of the empire by its styles, and be considered as the largest and grandest palace the world will ever see. Bazhenov gave him a rough design within seconds since it is one of his proposed plans to the Emperor soon, and the opportunity arise for him to amaze the Emperor this time. It had been approved right away and construction began.

With 500,000 to almost a million workers, ninety percent of them were slaves from other occupied or conquered countries that had been immigrated for the construction alone, the palace had been completed after eighty years.

Chief architect Bazhenov made the designing of the palace as his legacy; for even during construction, he had been designing revisions and planning the interior designs with a crowd of his students. Bazhenov died young, just nine years after the construction started due to pneumonia; and his students continued to use their teacher's design and vision for the palace. They even collaborated for the interior designing, the sculptures, and the paintings of the palace ceilings.

Emperor Yaroslav IV, however, died halfway to its construction. His daughter, Empress Yekaterina the Virgin, continued the construction until its completion. On 871 IK, Empress Yekaterina ordered the palace to be flanked by great gardens; thus the construction of the Alexia and Astilla Gardens that were finished by 901 IK. She was the first monarch of the Empire who've used the Axial Palace as her official residence, and the rest of the Court moved with her. Since then, the palace and the city where it was situated in, becomes the heart of the Empire; since it is where the monarchs of the Empire and their families live for most of the year. It also becomes a custom that the palace undergoes renovation and improvement all year round to avoid any flaws of it showing.

One major improvement of the palace happened during the time of Emperor Alexander III the Terror's reign when he ordered the installation of more glass windows and the overlapping of gold plating on the walls of the palace, as well as of the latest technology. However, right after his death, the palace had been officially used alone for matters of the empire and Emperor Alexander III had been the last ruling emperor to reside there while the succeeding emperors had resided into the much smaller palace–the Sun Palace–just outside of the gates of the Grand Imperial Vikla Palace which was considered to be "safer" in terms of usurpers since it had been the years of the Empire's succession to the throne that had been measured based on the survival of the fittest.

Only at the death of Emperor Fyodor did it had been occupied once again and its quarters had been used by the reigning emperor, at the ascension of Emperor Ionafan. However, the entire palace and the city of Vikla had been destroyed on 2318 IK, just a month or two after Emperor Ionafan's ascension to the throne, by a XXX warhead. Later on, Emperor Ionafan ordered the reconstruction of the palace as exactly as it had been before but altered the central square to resemble the gardens of the Elizaveta Palace and named the garden as **Josefina** after his mother.

## Parts of the palace

### The Main Palace

The Main Palace of the Grand Imperial Vikla Palace is separated into three so-called "palace" which were characterized as the **Central Palace**, the **Oriental Palace**, and the **Occidental Palace**. Though it had been separated that way, these "palaces" are all connected to one. The Central Palace, being the center of it all, had been linked to the two others by loggias and bridges.

#### The Central Palace

The Central Palace is where matters of the empire, the residences of the imperial family, and everything associated to the Court could be found. It is also, by far, the largest among the three divisions and is divided into four separate wings with their corresponding apartment buildings.

## Appearances

* *Revival*
* *Refrain*
* *Reload*
* *Repeat*
* *The Queen's Sword*
* *The Knight's Calling*
* *The Lady's Hope*
* *The Imperial Siblings*
* *Clothed for a Funeral*
* *With this Ring*
* *Last Notice*
* *Finalization of Plans*
* *A Secret*
* *The Birth of a Prince*
* *Affections*
* *X Code, Signing Off*

## Trivia

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