One of the students of Rastrelli, Ivan Michurin, together with a group of other architects, completed the palace in 1752.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the palace was the main residence of the governors-general.

In 1870, Emperor Alexander II had the palace reconstructed by the architect Konstantin Mayevsky, using old drawings and watercolours as a guide.

The Mariinskyi was badly damaged during the Second World War, and was restored at the end of the 1940s.

[1] On April 5, 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the White Hall of the Mariinsky Palace, where the state leadership receives heads of foreign states, will be called the White Hall of Heroes of Ukraine, and those who have been awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine will be awarded here.