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1826


Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Chronicle of three centuries/1826 - 1850

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.

The annual three-weeks long Alaksandrovskaya fair (it began on 30 August) began to held on the square at the Gostiny Dvor.

Post of the military commandant of Tsarskoye Selo was introduced. General I. Stessel was commandant from 1826 until 1846.

The Ministry of the Emperor Court, Prince P.M. Volkonsky became the head of this Ministry, was established. The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Board began the department of the Ministry of Court.

Persons
Stessel, I.
Volkonsky Peter Mikhailovich, Duke