[1] A minor Crimean Tatar settlement in the Middle Ages, Livadiya was named thus by Lambros Katsonis, a Greek revolutionary and Imperial Russian Army officer, after Livadeia, Greece, the town he was born in, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

[2] The estate later passed to the possession of the Potocki family and then, in 1861, it became a summer residence of the Russian tsars.

One of the most important events held in this town by the Romanov dynasty was the White Flower Day charity event that took place mainly in this little town from 1911 to 1917, that aimed at gathering donations to support people having tubercolosis.

Nowadays, Livadiia is known primarily for producing wine and is also a noted health resort.

A minor planet 3006 Livadia discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after the suburb.