Palace of Sardar, or Khan’s Palace, one of the masterpieces of Azerbaijani architecture, was built in 1578 by Tokhmag Khan, Beylerbey of Iravan, and a large garden was built opposite the castle on the right bank of the Zangi River.

The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Sardar and the Summer Palace in the Khan Garden were built by Muhammad Khan Qajar in 1791, thus completing the palace complex. The monument was fundamentally renovated in 1810, during the reign of Huseyngulu Khan, and a number of new buildings were added to it. The paintings on the walls of the Sardar Palace were completed in 1815 by Mir Abdurrza Khan, a representative of the Tabriz school of painting. After the Russian occupation of Iravan in 1827, the palace was severely damaged.

In the plan of the city drawn up in 1837, it was clear that the palace covered an area of approximately 1 hectare. The palace was renovated in the middle of the 19th century. In 1867-1874, Mirza Kadym Iravani carried out restoration works in the Sardar Palace.

From the beginning of the 20th century, the Sardar palace began to rapidly crumble. After the complete destruction of the palace in 1914, the portraits in it were dismantled and taken to Georgia. Those works are currently held in the State Museum of Georgia. After the demolition of the palace, a brandy factory was built on its territory.

Sources:
Ələkbərli Ə., Qərbi Azərbaycan abidələri (Bakı: “Nurlan”, 2007)
Nazim Mustafa, Erməni vandallarının yox etdiyi Xan sarayı (Bakı, 2016)
Erich Kettenhofen, George A. Bournoutian and Robert H. Hewsen, “Erevan”, Encyclopædia Iranica.
Luke H.C., Anatolica (London, 1924)
Миклашевская Н., Художники XIXвека Мирза Кадым Эривани и Мир Мохсун Навваб. — Искусство Азербайджана (Баку: Издательство Академии наук Азербайджанской ССР, 1954. Т. IV)