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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Vidov Alexander Fomich hidden Catherine Park (Pushkin town), ensemble | |
CATHERINE PARK (Pushkin town), a monument of landscape architecture and the central part of Tsarskoe Selo palace ensemble. Its consists of a total of 107 hectares The park consists of a grassed and a landscape areas, divided by the Great Pond ... | | CATHERINE PARK (Pushkin town), a monument of landscape architecture and the central part of Tsarskoe Selo palace ensemble. Its consists of a total of 107 hectares The park consists of a grassed and a landscape areas, divided by the Great Pond, formed by damming the Vangazia Brook. The regular Old Park (1717-20s, garden masters Y. Roozen and I. Focht) was laid out on artificial terraces to the north of the pond. There are parterre lawns and flower gardens on the upper terrace near the Catherine park, two small ponds on the next one, and on the lower terrace there are bosquets between the three divergent alley ways, leading to Rybny Canal, behind which, in the so-called Wild Grove, the Hermitage pavilion is situated (1744-54, architect M.G. Zemtsov , F. Rastrelli). The Grotto (Morning Hall) is located on the bank of the pond (1749-61, architect Rastrelli). There are marble sculptures and busts of the early 18th century on the park's paths (masters A. Tarsia, P. Baratta, et al.). Pavilions of the Upper and the Lower Baths were constructed in classical style on the terraces of the garden by projects of architect I.V. Neelov (see the Neelov family) in the late 1770s, and the Hermitage kitchen in the Pseudo-Gothic style at the Wild Grove entrance. The practice of tree trimming was ceased under Empress Catherine II, and the garden lost its regular character. The landscape part of the Catherine Park (1762-96, garden masters J. Bush, T. Ilyin, architect V.I. Neelov) was laid out around the Great Pond, the geometric outlines of which were changed to fit the landscape style, and the following artificial islands were made: the Great Island (with a hall on it, 1794, architect G. Quarenghi), Wild Island, Stone Island, and Rabbit Island. Artificial Cascading Ponds were connected with the Great Pond. Admiralty complex (1773-77, architect V.I. Neelov) is situated on the east bank of the Great Pond. The Column of Morea (1771), Kagul Obelisk (1771-72) and Chesme Column (1774-76) were erected in honour of victories in the Russo-Turkish Wars of the second half of the 18th century in the landscape part of the park by projects of architect A. Rinaldi. In the south part of the Catherine Park the Tower Ruin with a rampart of packed earth (1771-73), the Gothic Gates (1777-80, architect Y.M. Velten), and Gatchina (Orlov) Gates (1777-78, architect Rinaldi). Nearby, located beyond the park boundary, the Crimea Column is situated (1777-85, sculptor G.I. Kozlov). Swan pools with weirs and cascades are located to the southwest of the Great Pond, behind Sibirsky (Palladiev) Bridge (1772-74, architect V. I. Neelov). The Pyramid with a cemetery for dogs of the royal court with Water Laborinth near it are in the same part of the park. In the western part of the Catherine park there is the Ramp Alley and the Granite Terrace (1809, architect L. Rusca), on which copies of Antique sculptures were installed in the 1850s (master A. Hamburger). A path leads down from the terrace to the Milk Maid fountain (1816, engineer A.A. Bethencourt; female statue - sculptor P.P. Sokolov). To the west of the Ramp Alley there are the Upper Ponds, with the Concert Hall on an island with the Kitchen Ruins (1782-88, architect Quarenghi) and the Evening Hall pavilion (1796, architect I.V. Neelov, 1810-11, architect Rusca). the Catherine Park is separated from the Chinese Village by Podkapriznaya Road. In the 19th century the Catherine Park was enriched with: gates "For My Dear Colleagues" (1817, architect V.P. Stasov), the Turkish Baths (the 1850s, architect I.A. Monighetti), the Personal Garden was laid out with marble pergola and a fountain (1865, architect A.F. Vidov). The Regular design of the Old Garden was restored in the 1960-70s (architect N.E. Tumanova). Reference: see Tsarskoe Selo entry. A. A. Alexeev.
Persons Baratta Pietro Bethencourt Avgustin Avgustinovich Bush Joseph (John) Catherine II, Empress Felten Yury (Georg Friedrich) Matveevich Foсht I. Hamburger I.A. Ilyin T. Kozlov Grigory Mikhailovich Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich Neelov Ilya Vasilievich Neelov Vasily Ivanovich Quarenghi Giacomo Rastrelli Francesco de Rinaldi Antonio Roozen Yan Rusca Luigi (Aloisy Ivanovich) Sokolov Pavel Petrovich Stasov Vasily Petrovich Tarsia Antonio Tumanova Natalia Evgenievna Vidov Alexander Fomich Zemtsov Mikhail Grigorievich
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The Separate Park with the Colonist Pond ( it is situated along Pavlovsk Road). It was laying out by the architect A.A.Menelaws and gardeners F.F. Lyamin and I.F. Piper in 1824 - 1825. It was partly replaned in the middle of the 19th cent ... | | | | | | | hidden Service Wings of the Barracks for Disabled Veterans | |
Two stone service wings of the Disabled Veterans Barracks constitute the remains of the architectural ensemble, which was located here before, built by V.P. Stasov in 1821-1822 for placing Life Guard Disabled companies ... | | Two stone service wings of the Disabled Veterans Barracks constitute the remains of the architectural ensemble, which was located here before, built by V.P. Stasov in 1821-1822 for placing Life Guard Disabled companies. Companies have been formed, according to Alexander I’s order, from the soldiers received injuries in battles of the War of 1812 and foreign campaigns. Old soldiers served according to their possibilities at the guard posts in the imperial Tsarskoye Selo residence. Five wooden barracks, one for officers and four for soldiers, were intended for them in Kolpinskaya Street. Two stone outbuildings and a water-dispensing pools of the town water supply system were built in the heart of the yard. In the first floor of the soldier’s outbuilding (9 Pushkinskaya Street) there were laundries with stoves and boilers for heating water, below there were ice-rooms, and over them in the mezzanine there were rooms for provision and a hothouse. In the officer’s outbuilding (13-a Pushkinskaya Street) there was a shed for carriages, stable for six horses and ice-rooms. In the mezzanine floor over the stable there was a room for storing hay, other rooms were used for storing grain and other economy needs. In 1859 in connection with the reorganization of the companies of Disabled Veterans, their barracks were transferred to other departments. A civilian guard team was placed in the service wings, later a garden team including fifty people was placed here. One of the wooden soldier barracks also survived (19 Pushkinskaya Street) and it was transferred to the peasant I.A. Yuzikhin. In 1869 the building was accommodated by A.F. Vidov for a dwelling house with nice facades in eclecticism forms.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Stasov Vasily Petrovich Vidov Alexander Fomich
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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) ... | | 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). The factory-mill was built in 1784-1785 according to the design and under the direction of F.V. Bauer, a St.Petersburg military hydraulic engineer. Masters and equipment for producing paper were brought from abroad. In the main stone building there was a water mill, used in the process of production paper, rooms for keeping it. The building was located right up to the dam in order to water from a sluice fall on the wheel of the mill placed in the cellar. A stone “cherpalnya” and wooden “sushilo” were located on a plot near. The territory was protected thoroughly, only specially appointed persons had the right to attend at working areas. The supervision of the mill was imposed on the councilor V. Nebolsin and a police officer. Houses for the factory manager, officials, workers and a team, protected the factory, as well as warehouses were located at the north-western side of the pond. In 1819 the Banknote factory was closed in connection with the founding of the Despatch Office of State Papers Provision, which used workers of the Tsarskoye Selo Banknote Factory. But the production of paper, converted for making wall-paper, still worked for a long time here. The Tsarskoye Selo Wall-paper Factory, founded on the base of the Imperial Wall-paper Factory, moved from Ropsha, occupied these building from 1819 until 1860. After closing the wall-paper production in the former factory building the Tsarskoye Selo Trade Woman Alms-house of Empress Maria Fiodorovna Establishments Board was placed. A founded in 1872 orphan's home for keeping orphans and children of poor parents of all classes made its aim to prepare competent and trained to craft servants. In 1873-1878 the building was rebuilt and adjusted to a charity school according to the design of the architect A.F. Vidov. It was partially replanned and an additional three- flight stairs was constructed in the semicircular outbuilding from the yard side. In 1977 the former banknote factory was restored with displaying the original view of the façade, enclosed the perspective of the Catherine Park ponds, under the direction of the State Inspection for Monuments Protection architect B.A. Rosadeyev.
Persons Bauer Fedor Villimovich Catherine II, Empress Maria Fedorovna, Empress Vidov Alexander Fomich
| | | | hidden 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 ... | | 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. Sverchkov - lived and worked. Acoording to the order of Alexander II in 1874 the architect A.F. Vidov and the garden master V.I. Miller laid out a part of the park territory for building country houses with art studios. In 1876-1877 a house was built to the design of the architect A.X. Kolba on the plot of N.N. Lavrova and her sister L.N. Ogloblina, daughters of the artist N.A. Lavrov. P.P. Chistyakov took part in building the house and in 1881 he became the owner of this house. P.P. Chistyakov lived and worked here in summer and was often visited by friends and students. After 1914, when Chistyakov resigned the Academy of Arts, he lived and worked here permanently until his death in 1919. In 1987 the Memorial Museum of P.P. Chistyakov was opened here.
Persons Alexander II, Emperor Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich Gorbunov, kirill Antonovich Kolb Alexander Christoforovich Lavrov Nikolay Andreevich Ogloblina, L.N. Sverchkov, N.E. Vasilyev, Mikhail Nikolayevich Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Moskovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 23
| | | | hidden The estate of M.V. Kochubey (the Reserved Palace, Vladimir Palace) | |
Alexander I was the author of the original architectural idea and customer of Kochubey’s country-house. The work with the project was begun in 1816 from a draft developed by the emperor himself with the help of the architect P.V ... | | Alexander I was the author of the original architectural idea and customer of Kochubey’s country-house. The work with the project was begun in 1816 from a draft developed by the emperor himself with the help of the architect P.V. Neyelov, the final design was completed by V.P. Stasov. A semicircular terrace with columns and spherical dome, oriented to the “To my dear comrades” Gate in the Catherine Park and developed the architectural motifs of the Alexander Palace and the Concert Hall pavilion designed by G. Quarenghi, was successfully planned by the monarch-architect. The gift certificate was drawn up in April 1817 in the name of Princess M.V. Kochubey. The building was constructed in 1817-1818, the garden planning and building works were completed by 1824. During 1835-1857 it was the Tsarskoye Selo country-house of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich, who was born in Tsarskoye Selo. By his full age the mansion was rebuilt in 1856-1857 to the design of the architect I.I. Charlemagne, but after the finishing of building the Grand Duke refused the country-house. The project of Charlemagne was high appreciated and the architect became an academician of architecture, but his architect career was interrupted in view of fault-finding of the owner. The spectacular terrace with two stairs and sculptures of the Italian marble lions at the eastern façade of the building remembers about Charlemagne’s work. In 1859 Alexaner II ordered to name the country-house as the Reserved Palace. In 1895 The Reserved Palace was transferred to Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich. In 1876-1878 the architect A.F. Vidov built three cavalier’s houses for the Grand Duke retinue, wings for servants and later a garage and ice-house was built. In 1882 Alexander III considered necessary to register officially the transferring of the Reserved Palace to Vladimir Aleksandrovich under the ownership in right of primogeniture with especial conditions. Further attempts of the Grand Duke and his heirs to get the unlimited rights of ownership for the palace remained unsuccessful. After the Grand Duke’s dearth, the palace, which came into the ownership of the widow Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (Senior), was renamed the Vladimirsky Palace (in 1910), according to the Emperor’s order. In troubled 1917 during short-time the Vladimirsky Palace was used by the Soviet of Soldiers’ Deputies and Soviet authorities, a school- colony for juvenile delinquents, then here there was a School of VKP(b) (Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)) for the Communist Party activists of agricultural establishments. During the Nazi occupation of Pushkin Town in 1941-1943 the palace burned and was highly damaged, so the question about its restoration for placing the dormitory of the School of the Communist Party Education did not solve for a long time. In 1948 Doctor of Architecture, professor V.I. Yakovlev and B.L. Vasilyev, an architect of the State Inspectorate for Monuments Protection, disputed this idea of the palace using and recommended to use the palace for a culture-educational establishment (a theatre, club). Restoration and recovery work was done according to the design of the architect-restorer M.I. Tolstov in 1955-1958 for using the palace as the Palace of Pioneers. At the present time the most luxurious Palace of Wedding is placed here. Cavaliers’ houses and wings are occupied by the Cadet Corps of the Federal Frontier Service.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Alexander II, Emperor Alexander III, Emperor Kochubey Viktor Sergeevich, Duke Nikolay Nikolaevich (Sr.), Grand Prince Quarenghi Giacomo Stasov Vasily Petrovich Tolstov M.I. Vidov Alexander Fomich Vladimir Alexandrovich, Grand Prince Vladimir Alexandrovich, Grand Prince Yakovlev, V.I.
Addresses Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 22
| | | | hidden The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of the Resurrection of Christ | |
The Lutheran Church was founded according to the initiative of the director of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum Ye. A. Engelgardt and the Lyceum pastor Gnichtel. In 1817-1818 a wooden building was adapted for using as the church on money granted by ... | | The Lutheran Church was founded according to the initiative of the director of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum Ye. A. Engelgardt and the Lyceum pastor Gnichtel. In 1817-1818 a wooden building was adapted for using as the church on money granted by Alexander I. At first public religious services were conducted by the Lyceum pastor in German and Latin languages. In the church plot there was a primary school which was maintained on the parish’s money. On 14 August 1860 the new building was laid in the place of the old one. Design, approved by the Emperor, was developed by A.F. Vidov on the base of the model project of the Lutheran church of K.A. Thorn. In 1864 Alexander II made the donation of 7,000 Rb for finishing the building and on his birthday on 17 April 1938 the church was consecrated. At the Soviet time public services were stopped here in 1938 and the building was used as a vehicle repair workshop. In 1977 on the initiative of the Finnish Evangelical community the restoration repair of facades was made under the direction of M.I. Tolstov. In the same year the church was anew consecrated in the name of the Resurrection of Christ and services were begun in Finnish and Russian.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Alexander II, Emperor Engelgardt Egor Antonovich Gnihtel Tolstov M.I. Ton Konstantin Andreevich Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Naberezhnaya Street/Pushkin, town
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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 ... | | 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. The Baroque style facades held their splendid appearance. In the main building of the U-shaped complex of three building firstly there were stables for two hundred horses and carriage sheds for the court coaches. The old one-storied stone house of the clothes attendant Chulkov was enlarged and rebuilt for flats of a non-commissioned Master of the Horse and riding-master. In 1770 according to the design and estimate of the architect V.I. Neyelov the new building was constructed which formed the complex like a square. Under Emperor Paul the Hussar Stables were placed here. By the middle of the 19th century the building became dilapidated. More then one inner reconstructions were made by architects P.S. Sadovnikov, A.F. Vidov who built a carriage shed in the yard centre. In 1911 expositions of the agriculture and fire department, the Society of Trusteeship about Sobriety of the Tsarskoye Selo Jubilee exhibition were placed here. After 1917 the Stables were used by The Detskoye Selo department of the Leningrad Agriculture Institute. In the 1930s here there was a mechanical depot, later – the repair and engineering works of Lenobldortrans of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. From 1944 until 1947 here there was a prisoner-of-war camp. Then the building was restored and adapted for a improved hostel and sanatorium of the Agriculture Institute (now it is the Saint Petersburg Agrarian University). Works were done in 1947-1959 according to the design of the architect T.M. Belorusova (planning and restoring workshop No.3 of the State Institute of the Protection of Monuments).
Persons Belorusova, T.M. Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich Chulkov Neelov Vasily Ivanovich Paul (Pavel) I, Emperor Rastrelli Francesco de Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Konyushennaya Street/Pushkin, town Naberezhnaya Street/Pushkin, town Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town
| | | | hidden 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 ... | | 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. Constructing works were made under the direction of the architect N.S. Nikitin. The office rooms and Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky’s flat were placed here. In 1865-1866 A.F. Vidov adapted for a gymnasium of the Mariinsky department. He retained the main staircase and central main hall as well as the flat of the Governor that was put to a chief master of the gymnasium. The opening of the gymnasium took place in this building on 7 February 1865. The first principle was the famous teacher N.A. Vyshnegradsky. Y.V. Zakharzhevsky was one of founders and the first trustee. In connection with rising the number of pupils the building was rebuilt and enlarged in 1874-1875 on A.F. Vidov’s project. In 1906-1907 the building was rebuilt again, it was overbuilt one more floor according to the project of the architect G.D. Grim and under the direction of the civil engineer V.A. Lipavsky. The decorating facades with rustics and window’s wedge key stones placed in fanlike way and superimposing each other date from the original architectural decoration of the building. The decoration of arch windows and attic completion was used by G.D. Grim in overbuilt third floor. A.A. Gorenko the future poetess A.A. Akhmatova , was learning in the Mariinsky Gymnasium during 1900-1905.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Grimm German Davidovich Lipavsky, V.A. Nikitin, N.S. Vidov Alexander Fomich Zakharzhevsky, Ya.V.
Addresses Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 17
| | | | hidden The Nicholas Man Gymnasium. The memorial plaque to I.F. Annensky. | |
A part of the area of the closed Wall-paper Factory with a stone barrack for workers, belonged to the Banknote Factory since 1780, was given for building a public almshouse according to the Emperor’s order in 1859 ... | | A part of the area of the closed Wall-paper Factory with a stone barrack for workers, belonged to the Banknote Factory since 1780, was given for building a public almshouse according to the Emperor’s order in 1859. The project of converting the barrack into the almshouse with a domestic church was developed by I.A. Monighetti. The construction was directed by A.F. Vidov in 1863-1865, but then building was stopped in connection with the money problems. In 1869 according to the Emperor’s order the building was allowed to rebuilt as a man gymnasium. The gymnasium was named after Emperor Nicholas Pavlovich and in the memory of dead Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, the inscription on the memorial plaque placed on the façade informed about it. The solemn ceremony of the opening of the Gymnasium took place in the presence of Alexander II and august persons on 8 September 1870 in the Town Council hall. The Gymnasium became famous for its teachers and pupils, among which there was the poet I.F. Annensky who headed the gymnasium and lived here since 1896 until 1905. N.N. Gumilyev, V.A. Komarovsky, V.A. Rozhdestvensky, N.N. Punin and many others were among pupils of the gymnasium.
Persons Alexander II, Emperor Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Gumilyov, N.N. Komarovsky, Vasily Alekseyevich, count Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich Nicholas I, Emperor Punin Nikolay Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Alexandrovich Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Naberezhnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 12
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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 ... | | 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. Reservoirs for water were placed in the tower of 30 metres high. Two detached wings were constructed for an electric machine and for a keeper. The complex was connected with Taitsi water supply system and later it was connected with the Orlov and underground accumulative reservoirs. The splendid architectural decoration of facades in the Gothic eclecticism forms and considerable height attach significance of the composition dominant point to the building. The Orlov Tower, as well as the Pevchesky Tower built by A.F. Vidov, is an expressive early for Petersburg example of a water-lifting building and electric station.
Persons Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Parkovaya Street/Pushkin, town
| | | | hidden 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 ... | | 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. Building the palace church, being now, was begun in spring of 1746 to the design and under direction of S.I. Chevakinsky. The ceremonial laying of the Church of the Resurrection, performed by the Eminent Theodosius, Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Schlusselburg, was been on 8 August of the same year in the presence of Empress Elisabeth, Heir Tsesarevich Pyetr Fiodorivich and his wife Catherine Alexeyevna. During bulding Elisabeth Petrovna ordered to remake a piece of done work and continue building under the direction of the chief-architect F.-B. Rastrelli. Court painters G.-K. Grot, L. Karavak, B. Tarsia, I.Ya. Vishnyakov, A. Perezinotti were recruited to painting icons. In total in the church there were 114 icons, 59 of them were painted and 14 were corrected by famous icon-painter Fedot Kolokolnikov and Mina Kolokolnikov. The painting plafond with the image of the Ascension of Our Lord was painted by the painter G. Valeriani with assistants. Carving work was made by I.F. Dunker. The decoration of the interior was completed and Eminent Sylvester, Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Schlusselburg, consecrated the Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord on 30 July in 1756 . Religious services in the Palace Church of the Resurrection were performed by the court clergy during staying the Imperial court in Tsarskoye Selo. The Imperial retinue, ministers, diplomats, courtiers, officers of Life Guards regiments are present at the services. On Sundays and holidays the pupil of the Lyceum could be seen near Alexander I during liturgies. The historian Karamzin with his family visited the church. Weddings of the Imperial family members and courtiers, christening of the Imperial family babies, who were born in Tsarskoye Selo, took place in the church. The future emperors Nicholas I and Nicholas II were among them. The church parish included the palace officials, lived in Tsarskoye Selo permanently. In 1917 public religious services were stopped and the church interior was included in the museum exposition. The church interior had magnificent forms in the Baroque style. It was not subjected to considerable changes although the building experienced fires in 1820 and 1863. After the first fire the artist V.K. Shebuyev restored the lost in fire plafond, the church domes were restored to the design of the architect V.P. Stasov, their silhouettes were changed. The restoration of the original view of domes in the Baroque style were made by the architect A.F. Vidov after the second fire. During World War II the church inside decoration was plundered and got considerable damages, 97 icons were robbed, only some fragments were survived. After war restored repair of facades was made during 1957-1963 to the design of the architect A.A. Kedrinsky . But the church interior of the Palace Church has not been restored yet.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Catherine II, Empress Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich Dunker Johann Franz Elizaveta Petrovna, Empress Grot, G.-K. Karamzin Nikolay Mikhailovich Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich Kvasov Andrey Vasilievich Nicholas I, Emperor Nicholas II, Emperor Peter III, Emperor Rastrelli Francesco de Stasov Vasily Petrovich Tarsia, B. Valeriani Giuseppe Vidov Alexander Fomich
| | | | hidden 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 ... | | 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. The station was equipped with boilers and pumps made at the plant of F. San-Galli. The engineer- technologist M.I. Altukhov developed a project of the new water pipe line with cast iron pipes as well as changing the old wooden and ceramic pipes. The electric lighting of Tsarskoye Selo was started in the same 1887 when the tower was linked up to the town water line. Pumps, pumped water into the tower water-supply tank, at the same time put electric generators in action. The first alternating-current generators of the “Hanz and Co” system were installed by the engineer Grinevich, the electric lighting system was made by the engineer-technologist V.L. Pashkov. In the 1900s the all original electric equipment was changed with other mechanisms worked independently of steam pumps according to the design of the engineer L.R. Shvede. From the 1920s until 1950s the Pevchesky Water Tower was being a reserve electric power station and till recently it was used as a water tower.
Persons Altukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich Grinevich Shvede, L.R. Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Litseisky Lane/Pushkin, town
| | | | hidden 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 ... | 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, that was confined with the Ramp Alley and Under Caprice Road and adjacent to the private apartment of Empress, her kitchen-garden and used for morning exercise walking in house dress. Here there was the Big English Meadow with the Kagul Obelisk, Upper Ponds with pavilions and bridges. The second Private Garden near the Alexander Palace was laid out later on the sample of Catherine II’s garden. In 1855 the territory of the Big English Meadow between the Kagul Obelisk and the southern façade of the Catherine Palace, where Alexander II’s apartment was placed, was closed for public. In 1865 the architect A.F. Vidov developed the project of creating a pergola, fountain, flower beds in the Private garden, they have been being until our days. The Bremen sandstone pergola and Carrara marble fountain were produced at the Peterhof Lapidary Works. Lawns were decorated with flowers and white marble statues. This garden was used by only members of the Imperial family and their milieu.
Persons Alexander II, Emperor Bush, Joseph Catherine II, Empress Neelov Vasily Ivanovich Vidov Alexander Fomich
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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 ... | | 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. The project of adaptation of the director’s house into the office and hall for public meetings of the Town Council with the inscription on the façade “The Tsarskoye Selo Town Council” was developed by I.A. Monighetti. The construction was directed by A.F. Vidov. In 1865 the Town Council was moved into a new building which was enlarged and overbuilt with the third floor. In 1901-1902 the building was replanned and enlarged once more to the design of A.R. Bakh. Meetings of temporary premises session of the circuit court and military presences, performances, concerts, charity lotteries were held in the Town Council hall. The assembly hall was decorated with bronze busts of owners of Tsarskoye Selo, empresses Catherine I and Catherine II, a portrait of Nicholas II completed the gallery of the emperors of the 19th century. In the anteroom there was a bust of the Governor of Tsarskoye Selo Artillery General Ya. V. Zakharzhevsky.
Persons Bach Alexander Romanovich Catherine I, Empress Catherine II, Empress Luchini Giovanni (Ivan Franzevich) Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich Nicholas II, Emperor Vidov Alexander Fomich Zakharzhevsky, Ya.V.
Addresses Naberezhnaya Street/Pushkin, town
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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 ... | | 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. The college opening took place on 22 October 1843 in the presence of all tsar’s family firstly in renting stone house of the Full State Councilor Obolensky (it was built in the 1820s according to the design of V.P. Stasov and V.P. Geste). The college was conceived as the exemplary one and was under the patronage of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna and under the trusteeship of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna. Later tens women religious colleges were founded per its sample in different places of the Russian Empire. In 1846 the college was granted by the Emperor a plot of 4 desyatinas (11 acres) of the palace land - the garden of the School Gardening establishment at the Kuzmisky Gate. Until 1917 it was used for kitchen garden and meadow as well as for pupils walking and named “pepiniere” (now it is the garden near the Monument to A.S. Pushkin). The former house of Obolensky, bought in the college ownership, was enlarged and rebuilt for educational aims in 1847-1851 according to the design of the architect D.Ye. Yefimov. A domestic chapel, consecrated in the honour of the Intercession of the Mother of God by Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Novgorod Nicanor in 1849, was constructed in the building. At the corner from the side of the Alexander Park a garden was laid out, it was surrounded with the fence on the stone foundation and with massive posts. In 1881-1883 in the connection of the increase in the number of the college staff the building was overbuilt with the third floor and enlarged to the yard side according to the design and under the direction of A.F. Vidov. The engineering equipment was made at the plant of San-Galli. All tsar family often spent the time among the college pupils, attended at public services in the domestic chapel, visited the college kitchen garden – “pepiniere”. The Tsesarevna and then Empress Maria Fiodorovna was the last august trustee since 1879, Emperor Alexander III often was here. In the honour of the Tercentenary of the House of the Romanovs the eparchy department supposed to transform the college into a theological-pedagogical institute. For this aim in 1916 the civil engineer A. Pavlov developed a design of enlarging the building up to Tserkovnaya Street, where at the corner there was a two-storied house bought from A.P. Merder, the principal of the college. In 1916-1917 the college garden – “pepiniere” supposed to allot for constructing the Institute of Experimental Surgery to the design of S.A. Danini. However these projects had been not had time to finish in the connection of the events of 1917. After 1918 the college and chapel was liquidated, the building has been used for a school until the present time.
Persons Alexander III, Emperor Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Hastie Vasily Ivanovich (William) Maria Fedorovna, Empress Stasov Vasily Petrovich Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Dvortsovaya Street/Pushkin, town Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town
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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 ... | | 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. The hospital was placed in this place, originally located near Torgovaya (Trade) Square at the entry into Tsarskoye Selo from Moscow Road, according to the order of Alexander I of 23 October 1808. One-storied wooden building of the hospital with the Church of the Consolation of all the Afficted, alms-houses, chemist's shops, gardens for men and women departments, the fence around the hospital complex were built during 1809-1817 to the design of the architect V.I. Geste. On 21 July 1844 Nicholas I approved the design of new stone buildings for the hospital instead of outmoded wooden ones, that was developed by the architect D.Ye. Yefimov. The construction works were being done from 1844 until 1852 under the direction of the architect N.S. Nikitin. Hospital buildings have survived until present time. The main building of the hospital and detached buildings of the alms-house, chemist’s house, dwelling house for hospital workers, wash-house, chapel were surrounded with a fence and garden laid out on the base of the old hospital gardens by the gardener V. Miller. The consecration of the hospital church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Consolation of All Who Sorrow” took place on 28 September 1852. The court surgeon F.F. Zhukovsko-Volynsky 1804-1879) worked as the head physician of the hospital. Considerable works on modernization and re-equipment of the hospital were done from the late 19th century to the early 20th century to the designs of A.F. Vidov, A.R. Bach, S.A. Danini with the participation of doctors A.F. Gaaze, Ye.S. Botkin. The female-surgeon Princess V.I. Gedroits worked here according to the will of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. An outpatients department and admission room were built to the main building in 1908-1914 to the design of architect Danini. The hospital church of the Consolation of all the Afficted was enlarged, the cave-temple of Sts. Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles with separate entrance was placed in the new annex. In 1911-1913 Danini built a pavilion for infectious patients. In this pavilion during World War I there was a department for officers for thirty bunks of the Own Hospital No. 3 which was established for wounded men for personal savings of the empress. The Own hospital department for lower ranks for 200 people occupied the upper floor in the main building of the hospital. Sisters Romanov worked at this hospital until the arrest in February 1917. Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna was a scrub nurse, she assisted to the surgeon V.I. Gedroits and herself did bandaging. Her elder daughters Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolayevna and Tatiana Nikolayevna worked side by side of the mother. Now the N.A. Semashko Town Hospital No. 38 of the Health Protection Committee of Saint Petersburg is placed here.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Bach Alexander Romanovich Catherine I, Empress Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Gedroits, Vera Ignatyevna, princess Hastie Vasily Ivanovich (William) Nicholas I, Emperor Nikitin, N.S. Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Princess Tatyana Nikolaevna, Grand Princess Vidov Alexander Fomich Zhukovsko-Volynsky, F.F.
Addresses Gospitalnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 7
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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 ... | | 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. The villa was built for the owner’s money in 1856-1859 to the design of the architect I. Monighetti , that was partly changed during the works. The mansion, gardener’s house and the pond are survived until the present time in. Wrought iron wings of the gate on the villa’s territory from Pavlovsk Road were decorated with the monogram “Z Yu”. Later the most considerable works were done during the 1890s – 1910s, when the villa belonged to Countess Sumarokova-Elston Princess Z.N. Yusupova and was used the most actively. The architectural design of the mansion was made on motifs of Italian villas. Facades of the mansion were decorated in the Baroque style forms which remembered the decoration of the Hermitage pavilion in the Catherine Park. Placing a kitchen and rooms for servants in a wing, joining to the main house, was made like in the Babolovo Palace.
Persons Alexander II, Emperor Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich Vidov Alexander Fomich
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CHURCH OF THE HOLY SIGN in Tsarskoe Selo (2a Sadovaya Street, Pushkin), an architectural monument in the Baroque style of the reign of Anna Ioannovna. It was built according to the plans of architect M. G. Zemtsov with the assistance of I. Y ... | | CHURCH OF THE HOLY SIGN in Tsarskoe Selo (2a Sadovaya Street, Pushkin), an architectural monument in the Baroque style of the reign of Anna Ioannovna. It was built according to the plans of architect M. G. Zemtsov with the assistance of I. Y. Blank, close to the Catherine Palace in 1734-36, on the site of the wooden Holy Annunciation Church, which had been burnt down. A single dome basilica with a belfry is adorned with pilasters along the facade. The Сhurch of the Holy Sign was completed in 1747. In 1772-73, a marble portico was constructed (architect V. I. Neelov); in 1865-66, the cupola and the belfry were remodeled (architect A. F. Vidov), and in 1898-99 the Imperial Wing was attached (architect S. A. Danini). The church relics included the Icon of the Holy Sign (today kept in the church of St. Petersburg School of Theology). In 1944, the church was closed down. It was restored in 1960-62 (architect M. M. Plotnikov), in 1991 the church was returned to the faithful. References: Мещанинов М. Ю. Храмы Царского Села, Павловска и их ближайших окрестностей. СПб., 2000. С. 32-40. V. V. Antonov
Persons Blank Ivan (Jogann)Yakovlevich Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Neelov Vasily Ivanovich Plotnikov Mikhail Mikhailovich Vidov Alexander Fomich Zemtsov Mikhail Grigorievich
Addresses Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 2, litera л. А
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Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich, heir of the throne, was born in the family of Heir Alexander Nikolayevich in Tsarskoye Selo; Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich died in 1865 ... | | Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich, heir of the throne, was born in the family of Heir Alexander Nikolayevich in Tsarskoye Selo; Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich died in 1865. The electromagnetic telegraph, first in Russia, connecting Tsarskoye Selo with Saint Petersburg, was installed in the study of Nicholas I in the Alexander Palace. 22 October. The Tsarskoye Selo college for the church rank girls was opened. In 1847 architect D.E. Efimov reconstructed the house of Obolensky in Moskovskaya Street for the building of this college and in 1881 А.F. Vidov once again reconstructed and enlarged the building (now it's school no. 606 ).
Persons Alexander II, Emperor Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Nikolay Alexandrovich, Grand Prince Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town
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Architect N.S. Nikitin constructed the office building of the Chief Manager of the Palace Board, according to the design by D.E. Efimov. During 1865-1866 architect A.F. Vidov accomodated this building for the gymnasium ... | | | | | | | hidden | | |
17 April. The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of the Resurrection of Christ, designed by A.F. Vidov on the place of the wooden Lutheran church built by V.P. Stasov in 1810, was consecrated. General Ya.V ... | | 17 April. The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of the Resurrection of Christ, designed by A.F. Vidov on the place of the wooden Lutheran church built by V.P. Stasov in 1810, was consecrated. General Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky, the Cief Manager of Tsarskoye Selo, died and was burried in a specially equipped crypt of the Cathedral of St. Catherine. Aide-de-camp General G.F. Gogel has been appointed the Chief Manager of Tsarskoye Selo Palace Board and took up the post until 1877. One of Sophia Town's street, led to the Sophia Cathedral parade-ground, was named after him. A secondary school, the Mariyinskaya Woman Gymnasium , was opened in the town (its present address is 17 Leontyevskaya Street). The Town Council began to work in the new building (it is the Community Centre now) rebuilt from the former auxiliary building of the Assignat Paper Factory according to the design by I.A. Monigetti.
Persons Gogel, G.F. Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich Stasov Vasily Petrovich Vidov Alexander Fomich Zakharzhevsky, Ya.V.
Addresses Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 17
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1 July. New stone Gostiny Dvor, built according to N.S. Nikitin's design, was opened for the trade. A chapel, crowned with five small-sized cupolas and attached to the town Cathedral of St ... | | 1 July. New stone Gostiny Dvor, built according to N.S. Nikitin's design, was opened for the trade. A chapel, crowned with five small-sized cupolas and attached to the town Cathedral of St. Catherine, was located in the market's yard behind the building of the Gostiny Dvor. 14-16 September. A special reception was held in honour of Danish Princess Dagmara, the bride of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich, in Tsarskoye Selo. The private garden of the family of Emperor Alexander II was laid out according to the design by the architect A.F. Vidov. The appearance of the garden has been held to our time.
Persons Alexander III, Emperor Maria Fedorovna, Empress Nikitin, N.S. Vidov Alexander Fomich
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At the Reserve Palace along Sophia Boulevard the architect A.F. Vidov has built four wings for the estate of Grand Duke Vladimir ... | | | | | | hidden | | |
14 March. The Emperor approval was got for making the electric lighting in Tsarskoye Selo. The Pevcheskaya (Ghorus) and Orlov Water Towers were built according to the design by the architect A.F. Vidov ... | | 14 March. The Emperor approval was got for making the electric lighting in Tsarskoye Selo. The Pevcheskaya (Ghorus) and Orlov Water Towers were built according to the design by the architect A.F. Vidov. The first town electric power station was placed in the Pevcheskaya (Ghorus) Water Tower. 138 street lamps were installed in streets.
Persons Vidov Alexander Fomich
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