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Semenova Galina Victorovna
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The Orlov Water Tower.
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
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
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.
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)
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
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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The Private Garden (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
The Private Garden of Catherine II at the Tsarskoye Selo Palace was laid out by V.I. Neyelov and D. Busch in the 1770s. Catherine II called this part of the park
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The Red (Turkish) Cascade (an ensemble of the Catherine Palace)
The sign of the cascade is two round narrowed upwards Gothic towers with red brick facades. Lancet windows, narrow slit-embrasures, merlon parapets give to the cascade the appearance of the fortress construction
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The Small Caprice (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
The Small Caprice like the Great Caprice has the decorative and utilitarian function, it connects the Catherine and Alexander parks. Such kinds of constructions were necessary for constructing a convenient way from a part of the Tsarskoye Selo Park
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The Small Farm of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
Emperor Alexander II ordered to build different entertaining constructions for his children near his apartments in the Catherine Palace. The most famous construction was the Small Farm of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna
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The Tirkish Bath pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
The East architecture touches and the name of the Turkish Bath pavilion, occupying the foreground in the Great Pond panorama, remember about the Adrianople Peace treaty with Turkey in 1829
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The Toboggan Hill with a pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
The Toboggan Hill with two slopes (they were not survived) was erected in 1754-1756 to the design of F.-B. Rastrelli. The third wooden slope was added by V.I. Neyelov in 1765
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The Town Council.
A part of the area of the closed Wall-paper Factory with old barracks and director’s house, belonged to the Banknote Factory since 1780, was given for building the Town Council according to the Emperor’s order in 1859
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The Tsar Railway Station
The Emperor Own Railway branch line and a wooden railway station pavilion, intended for supplying an imperial residence in the Alexander Palace, was constructed in 1895 for safeguarding Emperor Nicholas II
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The Tsarskoye Selo Real College (with a garden and fence)
On the place, where in 1902 the building of the Real College was built to the design of A.N. Ioss, an architect of the Saint Petersburg Educational Okrug, there was Torgovaya (Trade) Square of Tsarskoye Selo planned by V.I. Geste
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The Tsarskoye Selo College for Maids of the Ecclesiastic Class
The Tsarskoye Selo Women College of the Saint Petersburg eparchy department was founded according to the Emperor order by Grande Duchess Olga Nikolayevna, later the Queen of Württemberg
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The Tsarskoye Selo Common Cemetery of World War I Heroes.
The first Common Cemetery of World War I heroes was founded in September 1914 according to the initiative of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. It occupies a plot near the Kazan Cemetery and was under the special patronage of the Empress
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The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Board
A long building is the compositional key point in the layout of the imperial estate and the central part of the town, it occupies the plot between Pevchesky (now it is Litseysky) Lane and Leontyevskaya Street
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The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital
The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital included two charity establishments: a hospital and alms-house, both supported for the money of the Palace Board since the time of Catherine I
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The Upper Bath pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
This building with the early Classical style facades, originally named “the bathing place for members of the Imperial family”, was built in 1777-1779 by the architect I.V. Neyelov
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The White Tower (an ensemble of the Alexander Park).
The pavilion White Tower of 38-metre-high, the highest construction in Tsarskoye Selo, was built by the architect A. Menelaws on the place of the Menagerie lusthouse in 1821-1827. The ensemble was designed as a Middle-Age knight castle-fortress
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The Woman Gymnasium of the Ministry Of People’s Education
The Tsarskoye Selo Woman Gymnasium of the Ministry of People’s Education was founded in 1904. Firstly it was placed in a tenancy house at the corner of Magazeinaya Street and Konyushennaya Street
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Two Angle Houses with Towers (the guardhouse, arsenal and office of the Life-Guard Hussar His Emperor Majesty Regiment)
Towers with wings were built in 1773-1775 to the design of V.I. Neyelov for placing the Patrimony Board of Tsarskoye Selo. The main building and wings were connected with a solid brick fence which has survived until our days
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V.V. Gudovich’s House (with a sevice wing, garden and fence)
The rich house of the Marshal of the Nobility Count V.V. Gudovich was faced the Catherine Park. It was built in the Modernist style in 1905-1906 to the design of S.A. Danini and consolidated some historic houses and grounds
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Z.I. Yusupova’s Villa. (an ensemble of the Separated Park)
Two first areas, laid out by A.F. Vidov in 1855 for six country plots on the Separated Park territory, were granted by Emperor Alexander II for building Princess Z.I. Yusupova’s villa
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