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The Alexandrovsky Cadet Corps
The Alexandrovsky Cadet Corps was established on May 30, 1830 for upbringing and education of minor orphans and sons of noble veterans. The Corps was under the patronage of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna
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The Alms-House of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna for disabled soldiers in the Babolovsky Park.
The idea of creating an alms-house for disabled soldiers who got injures during the Russo-Japanese War belonged to Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. A nice plot of the Babolovsky Park on the meadow at the Crimea Column was allotted for construction of
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The Armory
The Armory is a high red brick gothic style building situated in the Alexander Park. The Armory is a free copy of a pavilion in the Shrubs Hill, England. Architect A.A. Menelas started the construction of the Armory in 1819 and architect A.A
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The Arsenal (Monbijou) (an ensemble of the Alexander Park).
The pavilion Arsenal (Monbijou) is located in the Alexander Park of the town of Pushkin. During 1747-1750 in the center of the Menagerie architects S.I. Chevakinsky and F.-B
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The Babolovo Palace (an ensemble of the Babolovo Park)
Catherine II walking along the Taitsi water supply system noticed a nice hill on the Kuzminka River right bank. It was situated near the village of Babolovo aside of the Babolovo cutting. In 1780 a wooden house with outbuildings were built there
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The Banknotes Factory
In 1779 Empress Catherine II ordered to construct a factory for producing high quality paper, officially stamped paper and banknotes, on the dam of the 5-th Lower Pond, later these ponds were named Fabrichniye (Factory’s)
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The Big Hothouse with Garden.
The building was constructed in the 1750s to the design of F.-B. Rastrelli in the Baroque style. Constructing was directed by the architect S.I. Chevakinsky. In 1820-1828 V.P. Stasov rebuilt the building in the Classicism style
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The building of the Alekseyevsky Orphanage.
The big stone building of the Tsarskoye Selo orphanage of the Mariyinsky Board was built in 1905 to the design of the technician A.V. Druker . The orphanage was established in 1842
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The building of the Tsarskoye Selo Military Hospital (Sophia post office)
Constructing of a four-storied stone Post Office with stables and sheds in the town of Sophia was made in 1784 to the design of Ch. Cameron. In 1805-1806 it was rebuilt according to L. Rusca’s project under the direction of the brick-master D
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The Cameron Gallery (an ensemble of the Catherine Palace)
The Cameron Gallery, called in honour of its builder, with the graceful colonnade formed by Ionic fluted columns and a spectacular terrace with bow-shaped stairs led into the park, is a part of the architectural complex of Cameron’s Thermae
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The Central Building of the Town Policy.
V.I. Geste’s project, developed in 1809 and intended for office buildings, was used for constructing buildings of the Tsarskoye Selo Town Police (The Town Police Board, the Board of the Police Chief and Fire-station)
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The chapel of Saint igor of Chernigov
Memorial plate at the Chapel of Saint Igor of Chernigov.
A memorial plate in commemoration of sufferings of Pushkin citizens during the fascist occupation of the town was opened at the Chapel of Saint Igor of Chernigov in the year of the 300th
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The Chapel of the most Orthodox Prince Igor of Chernigov
The Chapel of the most Othodox Prince Igor of Chernigov and Kiev was built in the memory of perished citizens of Tsarskoye Selo – the Town of Pushkin during WWII
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The Chapelle Pavilion (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)
The Chapelle pavilion was located near the Upper Hothouses along the Menagerie line. Two Chapelle’s towers, connected with the arch, were built during 1825-1828 on the place of the dismantled southern bastion of the Menagerie
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The Chesme Column
The decisive naval battle took place in the Chesme Bay (Aegean Sea) in June 1770. “All honor to the Russian fleet! On the 25th-26th we attacked, defeated, crashed, burnt
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The Chesme Column, a monument
The town of Pushkin, the Catherine Park, the Great Lake.
Architect: Antonio Rinaldi (1709-1794)
Sculptor: I. Schwartz
It was built in 1771-1778
Materials: Olonets pink and white marble for the column stern with rostrums; Olonets gray marble
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The Chinese Theatre (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)
The Chinese Theatre or the Opera House was built by the architects A. Rinaldi and I.V. Neyelov in 1778-1779 in the New Garden western bosket at the place of an outside amphitheatre with turf benches
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The Church of Saint Martyr Julian of Tarsus of His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment
The Church of Saint Martyr Julian of Tarsus situated on Kadetsky Boulevard is perhaps the only church of this saint in the world. The church was designed by architect V.N. Kunitsyn and S.A. Dani for His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment
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The Church of St. Julian of Tarsus (of the Life Guard Cuirassier His Emperor Majesty Regiment)
The regiment church was built to the design of the architect V.N. Kuritsin at the corner of Kadetsky Boulevard and Kirasirskaya (Cuirassier) Street in 1896-1899. The decoration was made by the architect S.A. Danini
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The Cold Bath or the Agate Rooms Pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Palace)
The building, being the central place in the complex of Cameron’s Thermae, was built by Ch. Cameron for Catherine II in 1780-1788. Sculptors J.D. Rashett and K. Goffert, masters of jasper-cutting V.Davydov and V
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The Commemorative Plague devoted to E.F. Gollerbakh
The grand opening of the commemorative plaque devoted to Erich Fedorovich Gollerbakh took place in September 2010 on the building of the former Tsarskoye Selo Real College named after Nicholas II (now it is the school No
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The commemorative plaque devoted to A.S. Pushkin.
“Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin was educated here from 1811 until 1817”
1899. The architect A.R. Bach. Marble.
The town of Pushkin, 1 Sadovaya Street, the Lyceum. (F-231)
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The commemorative plaque to I.F. Annensky
The grand opening of the commemorative plaque to I.F. Annensky took place on 12 December 2009 on the building of the former Nikolayevsky Gymnasium. I.F. Annensky was the principle of the gymnasium where there was his flat
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The Commemorative Sign of His Majesty's Life-Guards Cossack Regiment
Project managers: V.N. Philippov, architects: Professor V.I. Mukhin, Chief Architect of Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “DARSI” V.V. Smolin, Candidate of Architecture E.E. Lavrushin.
The sign was established at the Cathedral of St
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The Concert Hall (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
The most perfect pavilion of the Catherine Park was built in 1782-1788 by G. Quarenghi
as “a hall for music with two studies and opened temple devoted to Ceres”
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The Concert Hall on the Island of the Great Pond, a pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
The first in Tsarskoye Selo a park entertaining pavilion Lusthaus, in the form of a octagonal balk wooden gallery, was built by the architect I.K. Ferster in 1723 just here, on an artificial island of the Great Pond
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The Concrete Stele in Yam-Izhora Town
31st kilometer of the Moscow highway.
An embossed image of the Order of the Great Patriotic War is depicted on the front side of the stele. The inscription on the memorial plate reads “Here the brave soldiers of the Leningrad Front occupied strong
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The Cottedge of Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich (an ensemble of the Separated Park)
A country house, looked like an English cottadge, is the first model of the St. Petersburg Modern and the scene of action of the famous series of TV films about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
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The Country House of P.P. Chistyakov (an ensemble of the Separated Park)
Building the country house of the artist and the Academy of Arts Professor P.P. Chistyakov was connected with the special art “colony” in the Separated Park where famous artists - K.A. Gorbunov, M.N. Vasilyev, N.A. Lavrov, M.V. Kharlamov, N.YE
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The Crimea Column
A column initially named Siberian Column was erected at the border of the Babolovsky Park in 1777. The column was erected in memory of integration of the Crimea and Russia according to the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji concluded at the end of the
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