Prince Vorontsov gave his wife Elizaveta a staircase that cost him 800,000 roubles. The author of the project was the architect F. Boffo, who carefully developed the proportions of the structure, pleasing to the eye with several optical effects.
Originally, the staircase was wooden, then 200 of its steps were laid out of of Trieste sandstone. Almost 100 years later, it was replaced with granite and the platforms were asphalted. Today the staircase has 192 steps and 10 platforms. From any point of the staircase one can observe the ensemble of Primorsky Boulevard.
In Soviet times, the staircase was renamed in memory of the uprising on the battleship "Potemsky" in 1905, and before the revolution it was called Rishelievskaya - because at its beginning there is a monument to the Duke. at its beginning there is a monument to the Duke De Richelieu - the first governor-general of Odessa and the Novorossiysk region.
