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The subject index / Tsarskoe Selo, Park Museum

Tsarskoe Selo, Park Museum


Categories / Science. Education/Museums

TSARSKOE SELO, park museum in the Pushkin town. Established in 1992. Includes palace and park built in the 18th-19th centuries, which were transformed into a museum in March 1918. The park-museum includes Catherine's Park and Catherine's Palace, Alexander Park and Alexander Palace, and various other structures. Before 1941, only Catherine's Palace and Alexander Palace were open for visitors, the majority of the structures being occupied by the sanitary and various other institutions. The museums and the parks were greatly damaged during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, and after the war a plan was developed for the reconstruction of the palace-park. Restoration was headed by architect A. A. Kedrinsky and sculptor L. M. Shvetskaya. The halls of Catherine's Palace were reopened for visitors in 1959. The majority of halls in Catherine's Palace, a number of rooms in Alexander Palace, the Admiralty, and a number of memorial buildings were opened through 2002. The reconstructed Amber Room was opened in 2003.

References: Музеи и парки Пушкина: Ил. путеводитель. 6-е изд., доп. Л., 1980; Семенникова Н. В. Пушкин: дворцы и парки. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. Л., 1987.

Y. N. Kruzhnov.

Persons
Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich
Shvetskaya L .M .

Addresses
Pushkin, town

Bibliographies
Музеи и парки Пушкина: Ил. путеводитель. 6-е изд., доп. Л., 1980
Семенникова Н. В. Пушкин: Дворцы и парки. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. Л., 1987

The subject Index
Alexander Palace (Pushkin)
Amber Room


Amber Room

AMBER ROOM, a unique interior of the Great Catherine Palace, and 18th century arts and crafts monument. The walls of the Amber Room are decorated with the amber panels (the only example of amber used in Russian architecture)

Kuzminka, river

KUZMINKA, a river in the south of St. Petersburg between the town of Pushkin and Petroslavyanka. It takes its rise from a swamped lake in Kandakopshino and flows (from the left) into the Slavyanka River upwards from the settlement of Petro-Slavyanka

Restoration Workshops and Organizations

RESTORATION WORKSHOPS AND ORGANIZATIONS. Restoration work in St. Petersburg has developed since the end of the 19th century. The reconstruction of historical and cultural monuments was first considered by the Imperial Archaeological Commission