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The Life-Guards 4th Imperial Rifle Regiment
A Rifle Regiment was formed of peasants of the Royal Demesne by order of Nikolay the First on October 25, 1845 (during the Crimean War of 1853-1856). The first ceremonial review of the Imperial Rifle Regiment took place on the Sophia parade ground
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The Life-Guards Keksgolm Regiment
The Life-Guards Keksgolm Regiment is one of the oldest regiments of the Russian Army. Only three regiments of the Foot Guards were established by Peter the Great – Preobrazhensky, Semenovsky and Keksgolm Regiments
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The Llama Pavilion (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)
In 1820-1822 the architect A. Menelaws built the Llama Pavilion, where llamas brought to Alexander I, apparently from Peru, were placed. In the closed courtyard there was a stable
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The Lower Bath pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
The original name of the pavilion is Cavaliers’ Wash-house. It was also built by the architect I.V. Neyelov in 1778-1779 and it was used as a bath for the court. The building is placed in a part on the terrace of the Lower Garden
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The Lower Stables.
The Lower stables with a fodder yard, fences and a wing with dwelling flats for stablemen were built in 1756-1762 to the design of F.-B. Rastrelli and under the direction of S.I. Chevakinsky
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The Main Line
The platform at the 21st kilometer.
Here was a contact point between the 42nd and the 55th armies that were defending Leningrad along the south-eastern and the south-western lines
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The Mansion of V.P. Kochubey.
In 1911 the Master of Ceremonies V.P. Kochubey bought an old estate in Tsarskoye Selo, with a ramshackle wooden house built by S.I. Cherfolio in 1835 for the first estate owner A. Polovtsev, a collegiate assessor
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The Mariinsky Woman Gymnasium.
The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky
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The maternity hospital of M.A. Drozhzhina
Firstly on this plot of the Separate Park there was a country house of F. Deviyen, first lieutenant of the Life Guard Rifle Tsarskoye Selo Battalion. In 1859-1861 a dwelling house with outbuildings
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The Memorial in the Kazanskoye Cemetery in Commemoration of Those Who Died during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945
The memorial was built in 1994. It is a stele. The inscription on the base of the monument reads “Undying glory to the soldiers of the Soviet Army who died in combats with the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”
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The Memorial Plate of A.P. Bogolyubov
“Great Russian marine painter and historiographer of the Russian Fleet A.P. Bogolyubov studied here in the Marine Company of the Alexandrovsky Cadet Corps for minors in 1832-1835 and 1838-1840.”
A.P
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The Memorial Plate of Lieutenant General I.V. Khazov
“Ivan Vasilyevich Khazov. 1895 – 1944. Lieutenant General, Commander of the 110th infantry corps of the 42nd army of the Leningrad Front that set Pushkin Town and Pavlovsk Town free from Nazi invaders on January 24, 1944”
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The Memorial Plate of M.Y. Lermontov
“Great Russian poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov served here in the Life Guard Hussar Regiment in 1834-1837 and 1838-1840.”
Almost all men of the ancient house of the Lermontovs were military men. Following the tradition M
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The Memorial Plate of the Airborne Troops
On August 1930, a small airborne unit for the first time parachuted near Voronezh to perform a tactical task during the field training. This date is recognized as the date of establishment of the Airborne Troops
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The Memorial Plate of V.V. Vereshchagin
“Outstanding Russian artist Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin studied here in the Marine Company of the Alexandrovsky Cadet Corps for minors in 1850-1853”
Vasily Vereshchagin was born on October 14, 1842
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The Military Cemetery at the 4th Kilometer of the Petersburg Highway
The memorial was built in 1966. The creators of the monument are V.A. Neverov, V.A. Sidorov, F.A. Yenikeev, V.P. Boytsov, P.E. Syroyezhkin, and E.V. Cherkasov. It is a 3 meters high black marble stele. An anchor is mounted at the bottom of the stele
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The Military Cemetery at the 703rd Kilometer of the Moscow Highway
A 5 meters high granite obelisk with the inscription “Glory to the heroes who died in combats for the Motherland. 1941 - 1945” stands on a hill. The monument is made of marble and granite
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The Military Cemetery in Kondakopshino Town
It is situated in the Pushkin Administrative District at the 12th kilometer of the Kiev Highway at the turn out to the Lesnoye State Breeding Farm. The monument was designed by architect P.A. Kulebyakin
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The Military Chamber (an ensemble of the Alexander Park)
The Military Chamber, located in the Alexander Park near the White Tower, was built on the initiative of Nicholas II in 1913-1917 according to the design of the civil engineer S.Yu. Sidorchuk like an Old Russian fortress
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The Milkmaid Fountain (The Girl with a Pitcher) (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
During about two centuries the bronze figure of the “Girl with a Pitcher”, from which a stream of crystal clear water flows, has been being a romantic symbol of the Catherine Park
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The Model Infantry Battalion
The Model Training Battalion was established in Tsarskoye Selo in 1826.
The Model Infantry Battalion prepared instructors in equipment, all types of rifled weapons, manuals, arrangement of garrison and guard service, and uniform and gear wearing
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The Monument to Alexander Nevsky
This outstanding commander of the Ancient Rus, the greatest military leader of that time, the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir and his small army and Ladoga militia defeated the Swedish forces on July 15 (21), 1240
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The monument to D.M. Karbyshev
A bronze bust of the military engineer D.M. Karbyshev, Hero of the USSR, made by the sculptor V.I. Ingal and it was cast at the plant “Monumentsculpture” in the middle of the 1960s , was installed in the portico of the main façade of O.V
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The Monument to Hero of the Soviet Union D.M. Karbyshev
Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev (1830 – 1945), Lieutenant General, Hero of the Soviet Union, Military Engineer, Scientist, Professor, Doctor of Military Science. He graduated from the Siberian Cadet Corps
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The Monument to Hero of the Soviet Union V.A. Matrosov
Vadim Alexandrovich Matrosov (1917 – 1999), Hero of the Soviet Union, General of the Army.
He joined the Soviet Army in July of 1941 and took part in the battles of Moscow
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The Monument to Lanskoi. (the marble pedestal «In honour of virtue and services») (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)
The chamber “marble pedestal in honour of virtue and services” or so-called the monument to A.D. Lanskoi is located at the Upper Ponds near the Kagul Obelisk. The monument was erected by the architect A
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The Monument to Lieutenant General I.V. Khazov
I.V. Khazov was the commander of the 110th infantry corps of the 42nd army of the Leningrad Front. He took part in the lifting of the siege of Leningrad. He was killed in the battles of the Velikaya River
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The Monument to the Headquarters
2nd kilometer of the Pulkovo-Pushkin Highway. A 2 meters high grey granite stele at the eastern verge of the highway marks the place where the headquarters of the 864th, 880th and 891st rifle regiments of the 6th militia division were located
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The Morea Column
It is a monument of military glory commemorating the victories of the Russian marine corps under the command of Count F.G. Orlov in the Russo-Turkish War on the Morea Peninsula (Mediterranean Sea)
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The Moreysky Column, a monument
The town of Pushkin, the Catherine Park, at the Chertov (Devil) bridge on the Lower Ponds.
The architect: Antonio Rinaldi (1709-1794).
It was erected in 1771.
Materials: Tivdia pink marble for the top with rostrums; Siberian cloudy grey marble
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