The construction of the Bialowieza Imperial Palace took place from 1889 to 1894, when Alexander III died. As a result, this luxurious residence passed to the next representative of the Romanov dynasty, Nicholas II.

The palace was designed by St. Petersburg architects Konstantin and Nikolai de Rosshfors, who are now almost forgotten.

After the Great October Revolution, local residents looted and partially burned the palace. In 1913, when the building was mostly vacant, a museum dedicated to the flora and fauna of Bialowieza Forest was opened there. In 1919, the entire territory of Bialowieza was transferred to Poland.

At first, the Poles did not touch the palace, only replacing the Russian symbols with their own. During World War II, it housed the headquarters of one of the German units, and Hermann Göring, the Reichsmarschall and one of the influential figures of Nazi Germany, occasionally stayed there. He enjoyed the local hunting, clean air, and nature.

In July 1944, during the advance of Soviet troops, the palace was set on fire, and its magnificent interiors were lost. Although the Bialowieza Palace was not an outstanding architectural masterpiece, its scale, quality, and luxury of decoration deserved attention, especially the interiors worked on by the young I.V. Zholtovsky, who later became a classic of Soviet Stalinist style.

After another change of borders, the western part of Bialowieza Forest with the palace remained with Poland. In 1958, the Poles blew up the semi-ruined palace, destroying architectural traces of the occupation presence, which became yet another example of Polish vandalism, alongside the destruction of the Benois Cathedral and Vasnetsov's in Warsaw.