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According to Empress Elizabeth Petrovna the famous Amber Room, which was presented by the Prussia King Frederick- William I of Prussia to Peter I in 1716, was brought to Tsarskoye Selo
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1756
30 July. The Voskresensky Church of the Great Tsarskoye Selo Palace was ceremonially consecrated in the presence of the Empress.
July-August. M.V. Lomonosov had visited Tsarskoye Selo and he reflected the ceremonial opening of the Great Palace
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1758
8 September. During the religious service in the Znamenskaya Church (the Church of the Holy Sign) Empress Elizabeth had a heart
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1761
8 September. Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was at Tsarskoye Selo for the last time. Elizabeth Petrovna died on 25 December in Saint
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1762
10 February. The Emperor III celebrated his birthday and he left Tsarskoye Selo on 13 February. He has never returned
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1763
19 June. After the coronation ceremony in Moscow the new Empress Catherine II was met with chime and cannon firing at Tsarskoye Selo.
28 July. The ceremonial entry of Empress Catherine II to Saint Petersburg from Tsarskoye Selo took place
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1770
28 October. The dinner and masked ball in the honour of Prince Heinrich of Prussia was held by Catherine II in the Great Tsarskoye Selo Palace.
The Palace Quarter had a population of 1,178
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1771
The wooden Tsar Church of Constantin was laid in Sophia Town
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1772-1780
The Taytsi gravity conduit, designed by the engineer F.B. Bauer, dams along Sadovaya Embankment, designed by the engineer I. Gerard, were built, the water facilities system of parks was improved and the many hydraulic constructions - bridges
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1774-1778
The system of the Great Cascade ponds with dams was constructed to the design by Colonel-Engineer I.
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1776
3 September. The ball in the honour of Princess Sophia Dorothea of Wurttemberg, the future wife of Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, was held at Tsarskoye
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1777
The construction of the Chinese Theatre was begun.
Sweden King Gustav III, under the name of Count of Gotland, visited Tsarskoye
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1779
27 April. Grand Duke Constantin Pavlovich, the second child in the family of Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, was born in Tsarskoye Selo.
1 January. Catherine II's Decree "About the Foundation of the Saint Petersburg Gubernia Including Seven Uyezds"
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1779-1780
The Palace wing (later it was named as the Zubov Wing) was constructed by Yu.
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1780
19 June. The performance in the honour of the Austria Emperor Joseph II, who visited Russia and stayed in the Upper Bath Pavilion under the name of Count Falkestein, was given in the Chinese Theatre
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1782
Constructing of the Gatchina (Orlov) Gates, built in the honour of Count G. Orlov's s successful mission of the struggle with the plague epidemic in Moscow in 1771, was finished
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1783.
The poet I.F. Bogdanovich's poem "Dushenka" ("The Sweetheart"), written by him in Tsarskoye Selo, was
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1784
25 June. A.D. Lanskoi, a favourite of Catherine II, died in Tsarskoye Selo. In 1785 the architector G. Quarenghi built the mausoleum over Lanskoy's grave. Later it was consecrated as the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
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1785
March. Count Lois Philippe de Segur, a French diplomat, had visited Catherine II at Tsarskoye Selo and he wrote the brilliant memoirs about Russia having the part on his visit to Tsarskoye Selo
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1786
1 April. Premiere of the opera "Fevey" at the Chinese Theatre was performed. Catherine II was the author of the
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1788
20 May. The Cathedral of St. Sophia, that was constructed by architects Ch. Cameron and I. Starov, was consecrated in the presence of Catherine II. Archpriest A.A. Samborsky became the first senior priest of the Cathedral
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1790
January. Ceremonial entry of Prince G.A. Potiomkin-Tavrichesky through the Gatchina (Orlov) Gates of Tsarskoye Selo after the capture of Ochakov and liberation of Moldovia from Turkey. The inscription from A
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1791
"Office of Buildings of Tsarskoye Selo" and "Inherited Estate Administration" were united into the Tsarskoye Selo Office. It was subordinated to the Hof-Intendant Office from 1797.
May. G.R
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1792-1796
The Alexander Palace was constructed by Giacomo Quarenghi for Grand Duke Alexander ( the future Emperor Alexander I), the beloved grandson of Empress Catherine II
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1793
May. Poem "Cupid and Psychea" of G.R.Derzhavin, adapted for the music by the court musician V.A. Pashkevich, in honour of the betrothal of Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich with Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alekseyevna, Princess of Baden
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1796
6 July. Ceremony of the baptism of Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich, the future Emperor Nicholas I, took place in the Palace Church of the Resurrection of Christ.
12 June
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1797
G.R.Derzhavin wrote the nostalgia poem "Ruins" in which the favorite residence of Catherine II at Tsarskoye Selo, which was florished in the time of Catherine II, was described in the allegorical form
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1800
17-31 July. Paul I had the only visit to Tsarskoye Selo during the 5 years reign. The birthday of Aleksandra Pavlovna, a daughter of Paul I and Maria Fiodorovna, Archduchess of Austria, was celebrated on 29 July
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1801
The Tsarskoye Selo inheritated estate had a population of about 7,900. The Tsarskoye Selo Office was renamed the board with the staff in quantity of 311 employees. The Full Councillor of State A.I
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1803-1811
"Tsarskoye Selo Practical forest Institute", there were two graduates, worked in Sophia Town and then it moved into Petersburg, it was the primogenotor of the Saint Petersburg Forest Academy
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