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1826 - 1850

1821-1827

The White Tower was constructed in the park ( architect A. ...
1822-1827

The tsar stables, later it was named as Orderly Stables, was constructed (architect S.L. ...
1826

28 February. The mourning train with remains of Emperor Alexander I went through Tsarskoye Selo. On 12 March the funeral service was performed in the Church of the Catherine Palace in front of the coffine with the body of the Emperor ...
1826-1829

Architect A. Menelaws constructed the Chapelle and the Arsenal on the site of the Monbijou and the Pensioner Stables for the old horses of Their Own saddles of Their Majesties ...
1828

Pavilion "Elephants" designed by A. Menelaws was constructed in the Alexander Park and elephants were in this pavilion until ...
1829

The Alexander Young Officer Training School was opened in buildings at the corner of Kadetskaya Street and Parkovaya ...
1830

The construction of the Egyptian Gates (architect A.Menelaws) and the Moscow Gates designed by V.M. Gornostayev, V.A. Glinka and A.P. Gildenbrandt was finished ...
1831

12 March. Tsarskoye Selo's coat of arms, the gold monogram of Catherine I under the crown on the red field, was established. 25 May. A.S. Pushkin after the wedding with N.N ...
1832

27 March. The special public prayer was performed at the Cathedral of St. Sophia devoted to the arrival of the Life-Guard His Majesty Cuirassier Regiment for the permanent billeting in Tsarskoye Selo ...
1834

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov had arrived in Tsarskoye Selo for the service in the Life-Guard His Emperor Majesty Hussar Regiment. The Emperor Convoy moved in Tsarskoye Selo for the permanent service according to the order of Emperor ...
1835

District of the former Sophia town became so-called "third part" of Tsarskoye Selo and the main place for the billeting of the Tsarskoye Selo garrison. The semaphore optical telegraph was organized in the White Tower for the communications ...
1835-1840

The Cathedral of St.Catherine, Great Martyr, was ercted to the design by K.A. ...
1836

17 September. In Tsarskoye Selo the name day of Sophia Nikolayevna Karamzina was celebrated; P.A. Vyazemsky, V.A. Zhukovsky, M.Y. Vilyegorsky, A.S. Pushkin with his wife and Georges d'Anthes were among guests ...
1836-1839

Residental houses designed by architect S.I. Cherfolio were built along Oranzhereinaya Street, on Sobornaya Square and between Moskovskaya Street and Kolpinskaya Street ...
1837

The Military Hospital was placed in the reconstructed buildings of the former post office near the Orlov Gates. 20 February. In Tsarskoye Selo, in the apartment of M.Y ...
1838

14 May. M.Y. Lermontov arrived for service in the Life-Guard Hussar Regiment, he returned in Tsarskoye Selo thanks to efforts of his grandmother E.A. Arsenyeva. In summer of 1838 M.Y ...
1839

5 August. M.Y. Lermontov wrote the poem "Mtsiri" in Tsarskoye Selo. The Pulkovo Main Physics Observatory was founded. Dr F.F. Zhukovsko-Volynsky, the future honoray citizen of Tsarskoye Selo ...
1840

The spring. M.Y. Lermontov was arrested for the duel with the son of the French ambassador de Barante. M.Y. Lermontov was put into the guardhouse of the Hussar Regiment at the corner of Parkovaya Street and Ogorodnaya Street (the house is ...
1841

The Heir Alexander Nikolayevich married Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt and then newly married couple moved to Tsarskoe Selo and settled in Zubov's Wing of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace which became their the favorite permanent residence ...
1842

23 May. The famous event "Merry -Go-Round at Tsarskoye Serlo" was arranged with almost all members of the family of Emperor Nicholas I, in medieval costumes, with real medieval armour ...
1843

Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich, heir of the throne, was born in the family of Heir Alexander Nikolayevich in Tsarskoye Selo; Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich died in 1865 ...
1845-1847

Architect N.S. Nikitin constructed the office building of the Chief Manager of the Palace Board, according to the design by D.E. Efimov. During 1865-1866 architect A.F. Vidov accomodated this building for the gymnasium ...
1846

27 November. Andrei Afanasyevich Vetvenitsky was appointed the senior priest of the Cathedral of St. Catherine in Tsarskoye Selo. He was buried in the Kazansky cemetery in 1883 ( the grave is preserved) ...
1847

Tsarskoye Selo had a population of 9,195 and there were 85 stone houses and 348 wooden ...