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1876-1877

The summer. M.P. Musorgsky was living in Zhukovsky's country house in Pavlovsk Road (26 Pavlovsk Road). He worked on the operas "Khovanshchina" and "Sorochinskaya Yarmarka" ("Sorochinsk Fair") and composed "Pesni I Plyaski Smerti" (Songs and Dances ...
1876-1878

At the Reserve Palace along Sophia Boulevard the architect A.F. Vidov has built four wings for the estate of Grand Duke Vladimir ...
1877

The summer. Living in his country house in Tsarskoye Selo the composer and pianist A.M. Abaza wrote the romance "Utro tumannoye" ("Foggy Morning") based on I.S. Turgenev's poem. Aide-de-camp-General K.G ...
1878

28 November. Empress Maria Alexandrovna received Alexander II's message from Bulgaria about the capture of ...
1879

21 November. The new regiment church, devoted to St. Sergiy of Radonezh in Gatchina Road beyond the Orlov Gates, was consecrated after returning the Second Rifle Batalion from the Turkey campaign ...
1880

6 July. The wedding ceremony of Emperor Alexander II with Catherine Dolgorukaya, later named as Princess Yuryevskaya, took place in the Church of the Ascension of the Catherine Palace ...
1882

18 March. According to the Emperor order the Reserve Palace was passed to Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich as the property in the right of ...
1884

There were four town colleges ( 255 students) and thirty primary schools ( 1, 815 pupils) in the Tsarskoye Selo zemstvo on 1 January ...
1885

Captain V.E. Ionov was appointed as the manager of the Palace Board. He has been working on this position until his death in 1905 and was burried in the Kazansky Cemetery ...
1886

5 March. V. Yu. Vize, the future Arctic explorer and scientist, was born in Tsarskoye Selo, later he was graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas ...
1887

14 March. The Emperor approval was got for making the electric lighting in Tsarskoye Selo. The Pevcheskaya (Ghorus) and Orlov Water Towers were built according to the design by the architect A.F. Vidov ...
1891-1894

V.I. Ulyanov more than once visited the estate (in Pavlovsk Road) of his friend A.A. Shukht, narodnik-revolutionary, a son of General A.I. Shukht, the former commander of the Life- Guard Cuirassier Regiment ...
1892

27 August. The writer Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak with his two-year-old daughter has moved to Tsarskoye Selo from Saint Petersburg and has been living there until 1908. 27 September ...
1893

The Gorenkos' family with children Andrei, Inna, Irina and Anna (the future poet A.A. Akhmatova) settled in the house of Shukhardina in Shirokaya ...
1894

23 October. In Tsarskoye Selo Nikolai Otsup, the future poet and literary critic, whose muse was closely connected with Tsarskoye Selo, was born in the family of the photographer A. Otsup. 22 November ...
1895

15 January. The new city slaughterhouse with the recycling plant, designed by the architect A.R. Bach, began to work. 23 March. Erik Fiodorovich Gollerbach, the future art historian and literary critic ...
1895-1899

The English country estate of Grand Duke Boris Vladinirovich was constructed in the Separate Park by the English firm "Mapl" according to designs of architects Schernborn, A.von Gogen, F. Meltzer ...
1896

8 January. A.P. Chekhov, as guest, arrived to D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak in Tsarskoye Selo. The almshouse, in the memory of the merchants Sinebryukhovs, for girls and aged women began to work in Moskovskaya Street. 14 May ...
1899

26 May. The liturgy and pannychis in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin were performed in the Cathedral of St. Catherine in Tsarskoye Selo ...
1900

The palm hothouse designed by the architect A. Bach was constructed behind the Manege building and later it was transferring into Saint Petersburg, near the Taurida Palace. Architect A ...
1977-1878

The country house of P.P. Chistyakov, a professor of painting of the Academy of Arts, who has been living there until 1919, was built on Moscow Road to the design by the architect A. Kolba and with the participation of P.P. Chistyakov ...