Monuments of history and culture
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The House of F. Kanobbio.
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A splendid sample of a wooden house with a mezzanine and three-part Italian window in the Classicism style was erected to the design of V.I. Geste which was approved by Alexander I in 1814 ...
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The House of L.V. Tepper de Fergusson
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A dwelling house with mezzanine was built at the border of the 18th and 19th centuries during the reign of Emperor Paul I. The most probably that the author of the project was P.V ...
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The House of the Commander of the Life - Guard Hussar His Emperor Majesty Regiment
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The building was originally intended for placing the Patrimony Board office, it was built in 1773-1775 to the design of V.I. Neyelov. It was connected with two angle buildings with towers with the solid brick fence ...
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The house of Ya. Kitayev (with the fence and garden)
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A design of an one-storied house with a mezzanine and garden was developed in 1926 by the architect V.M. Gornostayev for Ya.V. Kitayev, a valet of emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I. When Ya.V ...
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The house of Ye.A. Engelgardt.
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Two-storied building (4 Sadovaya Street) was built in 1752-1753 to the design of S. Chevakinsky in the complex of four cavaliers’ houses for a linen-keeper of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. In 1811-1816 V.P ...
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The Kagul Obelisk, a monument
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The town of Pushkin, the Catherine Park, nearby the Private Garden.
The architect: Antonio Rinaldi (1709-1794)
The obelisk was erected in 1771-1772
Materials: the obelisk and pedestal are made of Siberian grey with veins marble; steps are made ...
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The Kolonistsky Pond in the Separated Park.
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The Kolonistsky Pond was made on the base of the two artificial rectangular ponds dug in 1804 on the Pavlovsk water supply system. The old track of the Moscow Road was located between them ...
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The cemetery name comes from the village of Kuzmino. Founded in 1714 by peasants- resettlers from villages of the Moscow, Yaroslavl, Vologda and Kostrona regions, later the village has grown in the rich many-populated village of Bolshoye Kuzmino ...
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The Kuzminsky (Egyptian) Gate.
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The Kuzminsky Gate (it is the historical name) is the bright incarnation of the Egyptian theme. It has caused the rename of the Kuzminsky Gate in the second half of the 20th century ...
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The Llama Pavilion (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)
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In 1820-1822 the architect A. Menelaws built the Llama Pavilion, where llamas brought to Alexander I, apparently from Peru, were placed. In the closed courtyard there was a stable ...
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The Lower Bath pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
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The original name of the pavilion is Cavaliers’ Wash-house. It was also built by the architect I.V. Neyelov in 1778-1779 and it was used as a bath for the court. The building is placed in a part on the terrace of the Lower Garden ...
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The Lower stables with a fodder yard, fences and a wing with dwelling flats for stablemen were built in 1756-1762 to the design of F.-B. Rastrelli and under the direction of S.I. Chevakinsky ...
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The Mansion of V.P. Kochubey.
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In 1911 the Master of Ceremonies V.P. Kochubey bought an old estate in Tsarskoye Selo, with a ramshackle wooden house built by S.I. Cherfolio in 1835 for the first estate owner A. Polovtsev, a collegiate assessor ...
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The Mariinsky Woman Gymnasium.
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The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky ...
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The maternity hospital of M.A. Drozhzhina
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Firstly on this plot of the Separate Park there was a country house of F. Deviyen, first lieutenant of the Life Guard Rifle Tsarskoye Selo Battalion. In 1859-1861 a dwelling house with outbuildings ...
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The Military Chamber (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)
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The Military Chamber, located in the Alexander Park near the White Tower, was built on the initiative of Nicholas II in 1913-1917 according to the design of the civil engineer S.Yu. Sidorchuk like an Old Russian fortress ...
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The Milkmaid Fountain (The Girl with a Pitcher) (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
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During about two centuries the bronze figure of the “Girl with a Pitcher”, from which a stream of crystal clear water flows, has been being a romantic symbol of the Catherine Park ...
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The monument to D.M. Karbyshev
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A bronze bust of the military engineer D.M. Karbyshev, Hero of the USSR, made by the sculptor V.I. Ingal and it was cast at the plant “Monumentsculpture” in the middle of the 1960s , was installed in the portico of the main façade of O.V ...
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The Monument to Lanskoi. (the marble pedestal «In honour of virtue and services») (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
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The chamber “marble pedestal in honour of virtue and services” or so-called the monument to A.D. Lanskoi is located at the Upper Ponds near the Kagul Obelisk. The monument was erected by the architect A ...
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The Moreysky Column, a monument
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The town of Pushkin, the Catherine Park, at the Chertov (Devil) bridge on the Lower Ponds.
The architect: Antonio Rinaldi (1709-1794).
It was erected in 1771.
Materials: Tivdia pink marble for the top with rostrums; Siberian cloudy grey marble ...
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The Moscow Gate (Pushkin Town)
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The Moscow Gate, representing two stone guardhouses with gate folds between them, was constructed in 1830-1831. Facades of the guardhouses was decorated in the Empire style. Ya. V ...
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The Nicholas Man Gymnasium. The memorial plaque to I.F. Annensky.
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A part of the area of the closed Wall-paper Factory with a stone barrack for workers, belonged to the Banknote Factory since 1780, was given for building a public almshouse according to the Emperor’s order in 1859 ...
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The Nusery School of Her Majesty Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna in the Babolovsky Park.
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In 1903 Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna granted the plot located in the Babolovsky Park between Gatchina Road and Baursky Channel for building a Nusery School founded by her ...
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The monumental building of the Orderly Stables (8 Sadovaya Street) was built in 1822-1824 by the architect S.L. Shustov according to the design of V.P. Stasov for placing the own imperial stables of Alexander I ...
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The Orlov Water Tower was built according to the design of architect A.F. Vidov in 1887 in the outlying district of the Babolovsky Park, it was one of two historic water-lifting buildings of Tsarskoye Selo ...
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The Palace Church of the Resurrection
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In the Tsarskoye Selo Palace of Tsarina Catherine Alexeyevna at first there was an camp private chapel of St. Catherine the Great Martyr. The main sight of this church was a carved iconostasis of dark blue colour ...
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The Palace of Countess O.V. Gogenfelsen Princess Paley
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In 1910 Countess O.V. Gogenfelsen, the wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, bought a luxurious country house in Pashkov Lane. Among former owners there was State Councilor I.D ...
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The Palace Power Electric Station.
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The Palace Power Electric Station complex including the main building, service wing, fence and the historic support of electricity supply network was constructed in 1896-1898 to the design of the architect S.A ...
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The Pensioners’ Stables (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)
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A path of the Alexander Park to ponds on the Kuzminka River has led to the Pensioners’ Stables, a Gothic park building hidden in trees thicket. The pavilion was built by Menelaws in 1827-1829 and intended for eight horses which were used by the ...
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The Pevchesky Water Tower
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The building with thirty-metre tower intended for a water-lifting and electric power station was built in 1887 to the design of A.F. Vidov. The building was named after the name of former Pevchesky (now – Litseysky) Lane ...
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