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FORSH (nee Komarova) Olga Dmitrievna (1873-1961, Tyarlevo, near Pavlovsk), writer. Graduated from Nikolaevsky Orphane Girls' Institute in Moscow in 1891. She studied painting at various art schools, including the home studio of artist P.P ... | | FORSH (nee Komarova) Olga Dmitrievna (1873-1961, Tyarlevo, near Pavlovsk), writer. Graduated from Nikolaevsky Orphane Girls' Institute in Moscow in 1891. She studied painting at various art schools, including the home studio of artist P.P. Chistyakov in St. Petersburg which she attended in 1895. In 1910-18 she lived in Tsarskoe Selo, where she worked as drawing instructor. She was an active contributor to St. Petersburg journals Zavety, Sovremennik, Nash Put, children's magazine Tropinka, Skifi; she also attended Ivanov's Wednesdays. She lived intermittently in Petrograd (Leningrad) from 1920. In 1920-22 she was one of the residents of the House of Arts, Petrograd cultural phenomenon to which she gave an original artistic interpretation in her novel Mad Ship (also known as Ship of Fools) (1931). The essential part of her literary heritage is constituted by historical novels (Dressed in Stone, 1924-25; Contemporaries, Hot Shop, both in 1926; The Raven, also known as Symbolists, 1933; trilogy Radishchev, 1932-39; Mikhailovsky Castle, 1946, the latter being the first part of the unfinished cycle of novels about St. Petersburg, entitled The Immortal City). These novels convey the images of imperial, revolutionary, literary and artistic St. Petersburg of various epochs. In Tsarskoe Selo (Pushkin), she lived in the summer house of Chistyakov at 23 Moskovskoe Freeway at various times and at 38 Moskovskoe Freeway in 1915-16. In Leningrad, Forsh resided at 9 Griboedova Canal Embankment (collective memorial plaque) and at 3 Kuybysheva Street in 1954-61 (memorial plaque); she also lived at Tyarlevo village near Pavlovsk. She was buried at Kazanskoe cemetery in Pushkin. In 1970 a street in the north of the city was named after her. References: Ольга Форш в воспоминаниях современников. Л., 1974; Тамарченко А. В. Ольга Форш: Жизнь, личность, творчество. 2-е изд., доп. Л., 1974; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 274-289. D. N. Cherdakov.
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KAZANSKOE CEMETERY. Cemetery in the town of Pushkin (1 Gusarskaya Street). The area consists of 35 hectares. It has existed from 1785. It is named after the Kazan Church and Burial Vault (1785-1790), built over the crypt of A.D ... | | KAZANSKOE CEMETERY. Cemetery in the town of Pushkin (1 Gusarskaya Street). The area consists of 35 hectares. It has existed from 1785. It is named after the Kazan Church and Burial Vault (1785-1790), built over the crypt of A.D. Lanskoy (1758-1784), who held the favour of Empress Catherine II. The mausoleum, bell tower and gates at the fence have all survived. To the South of the Orthodox Kazanskoe Cemetery sections for other denominations are situated, including the Lutheran, Muslim, and Jewish sections, which were later united. In 1914-1916, the Communal Cemetery for Soldiers was arranged in the cemetery"s northwest section (not preserved). Common graves and graves of participants of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were placed in the eastern part. The high Yuryevsky Princes family crypt has survived (1879, Y.F. Bruni), as has the Orlov-Davydov Counts rotunda-mausoleum (1910, A.A. Grubbe). Also buried at Kazanskoe cemetery are the poet I.F. Annensky, artist P.P. Chistyakov, Lithuanian poet Y. Yanonis (tomb stone by sculptor B. Vishnyauskas, 1963), writers O.D. Forsch, A.R. Belyaev, S.M. Alyansky, T.G. Gnedich, T.K. Galushko, and M.P. Rudenskaya (historian of the Pushkin Lyceum Museum), cameraman A.N. Moskvin, and artist O.N. Gildebrand-Arbenina. References: Пирютко Ю. М. Царскосельский некрополь // Петербургские чтения-96. СПб., 1996. С. 278-280; Казанское кладбище в Царском Селе/Сост.: А. Ю. Егоров, Н. А. Давыдова. СПб., 2003. Y. M. Piryutko.
Persons Alyansky Samuil Mironovich Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Belyaev Alexander Romanovich Bruni Yuly Fedorovich Catherine II, Empress Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Galushko Tatyana Konstantinovna Gildebrand-Arbenina Olga Nikolaevna Gnedich Tatyana Grigorievna Grube Artur Alexandrovich Lanskoy Alexander Dmitrievich Moskvin Andrey Nikolaevich Rudenskaya Marina Petrovna the Orlov-Davydovs the Yuryevskys, Dukes Vishnyauskas Bronyus Danelyaus Yanonis Yulyus
Addresses Gusarskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 1
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SHISHKOV Vyacheslav Yakovlevich (1873-1945), writer. In 1891 he graduated from Vyshny Volochek technical school. He started to publish his works from 1908, although he personally considered his literary debut to have occurred in 1912 ... | | SHISHKOV Vyacheslav Yakovlevich (1873-1945), writer. In 1891 he graduated from Vyshny Volochek technical school. He started to publish his works from 1908, although he personally considered his literary debut to have occurred in 1912, when Zavety journal published his story They Have Prayed; that was also the time when he first visited St. Petersburg and met Ivanov-Razumnik, A.M. Remizov and other writers. In the winter of 1914 he met M. Gorky in St. Petersburg. A year later he moved to Petrograd to serve at the Ministry of Transport Communications. In 1916 he published his first major work Taiga in Letopis journal. From 1917 he had devoted himself exclusively to literary activity. He used to travel much; in 1927-41 he lived in Detskoe Selo (Pushkin), where he worked on his narrative The Wanderers (Leningrad, 1932), novel Ugryum-River (came out in a separate edition in Leningrad, 1933), the first part of the novel Emelyan Pugachev ( Leningrad, 1941 separate edition; the Stalin Prize of 1946, for all three volumes). The latter novel, in particular, vividly portrays the life of St. Petersburg in the second half of the 18th century. Shishkov's Fridays were attended by A.N. Tolstoy, A. Bely, K.A. Fedin, P.P. Soykin, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, O.D. Forsh, A.A. Prokofiev, V.A. Kaverin, N.S. Tikhonov, M.L. Slonimsky et al. During the siege he appeared in press and on the air. In 1942 Shishkov was evacuated. While in Detskoe Selo, he lived at 14 Malaya Street (the building was not preserved) in 1927-29, at 9 Moskovskaya Street (memorial plaque) in 1929-41; in Leningrad, in 1941-42 he resided at 9 Griboedova Canal Embankment (memorial plaque). The name Shishkov was given to a Street in Pushkin (Vyacheslava Shishkova Street). References: Раковский Л. Вячеслав Шишков // Белые ночи: О тех, кто прославил город на Неве. Л., 1971. [Вып. 1]. С. 247-255; Воспоминания о В. Шишкове. М., 1979; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 290-308. D. N. Cherdakov.
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TOLSTOY Alexey Nikolaevich (1882-1945), count, writer, publicist, public figure, fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939). He studied at еру St. Petersburg Technological Institute (1901-07, without receiving a degree) ... | | TOLSTOY Alexey Nikolaevich (1882-1945), count, writer, publicist, public figure, fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939). He studied at еру St. Petersburg Technological Institute (1901-07, without receiving a degree). He started as a poet (Lyrics collection of poems, which imitated the poetry of the symbolists, published in St. Petersburg in 1907), but soon turned to prose (his first story The Old Tower was published in the Niva journal in 1908), which brought him success. His early works include: literary adaptation of folklore subjects in the Magpie Tales collection, 1910; stories based on the life of his native Samara province in the book Narratives and Stories, 1910, also known as Zavolzhye etc.). Tolstoy became an active member of the literary groups of St. Petersburg, frequented Ivanov's Wednesdays and contributed to various St. Petersburg periodicals. In 1913-16 he was in St. Petersburg - Petrograd on flying visits, relocated to Petrograd in 1923, and finally moved to Detskoe Selo in 1928. Among the visitors of his Wednesdays were V.Y. Shishkov, O.D. Forsh, B.A. Lavrenev, M.M. Zoschenko, P.E. Schegolev, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, A.F. Ioffe among others. The works of Tolstoy are distinguished with a vast variety of themes and genres: while in Leningrad and Detskoe Selo, he wrote the science-fiction novel The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1925-26); the first two books of the novel Peter the Great (1930, 1934; the Stalin Prize of 1941), which was one of the most important works of Tolstoy, dedicated to the issues of Russian state system and historical progress, politically topical in the 1930s; The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino, the fairy tale for children whose popularity never fades (1935) etc. The reality of St. Petersburg life is portrayed in many works of Tolstoy (trilogy The Road to Calvary, 1921-41; play The Conspiracy of the Empress, 1926, written together with Schegolev etc.). From 1938 he lived in Moscow. Tolstoy was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1943 and in 1946, posthumously. In 1907-10 he lived at 35 Tavricheskaya Street; in 1910-12 he resided at 147 Nevsky Prospect; in 1925-28 he lived at 3 Zhdanovka River Embankment; while in Detskoe Selo (Pushkin), in 1928-30 he lived at 8/13 Moskovskaya Street and at 6 Proletarskaya Street (present-day Tserkovnaya) in 1930-38. Tolstoy's name was attached to a boulevard in the town of Pushkin. References: Воспоминания об А. Н. Толстом: Сб. М., 1982; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 309-326; Петелин В. В. Жизнь Алексея Толстого: "Красный граф". М., 2001. D. N. Cherdakov.
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6 February. Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilyov, the father of the poet N.S. Gumilyov, a naval doctor, died in the house of Georgiyevsky in Bulvarnaya Street. He was burried in Kuzminskoye Cemetery in Tsarskoye Selo. June ... | | 6 February. Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilyov, the father of the poet N.S. Gumilyov, a naval doctor, died in the house of Georgiyevsky in Bulvarnaya Street. He was burried in Kuzminskoye Cemetery in Tsarskoye Selo. June. After their wedding journey to Paris N.S. Gumilyov and A.A. Akhmatova settled in a flat in Bulvarnaya Street and then in 1911 they moved to the house of A.I. Gumilyova, the mather of the poet, in Malaya Street. Olga Dmitriyevna Forsh's family settled in Tsarskoye Selo. O.D. Forsh, a student of the painter P.P. Chistyakov, taught drawing and modelling at the school of Levitskaya. During 1916-1917 O.D. Forsh with her children lived in a wooden wing of the Chistyakovs' house, which was named "the cry of Yaroslavna" by Forsh. In 1918 Forsh moved to Moscow. Ceremonial events devoted to the 200-year anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo took place. 1005 copies of the first edition of S.N. Vilchkovsky's book "Tsarskoye Selo" were printed, the commemorative medal was striked. According to the facts published in the book we have known that 30888 people lived in Tsarskoye Selo, in summer the population increased by 7000 people, there were twenty Orthodox churches, one Roman-Catholic church, one Lutheran church and a Jewish chapel, five chemist's shops, two public bath-houses, three banks, three libraries, fifteen orphanages, nine regiments, eight hospitals and aid posts, twenty one offices, twenty educational institution. 24 June. In the occasion of the 200-year anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo, the morning was started from the special public prayer in the Cathedral of St. Catherine. Religious processions from eighteen Tsarskoye Selo churches and from three uyezd churches arrived in Sobornaya Square. A military parade took place on the parade-ground of the Catherine Palace. The jubilee meeting and the consecration of busts of Catherine I and Alexander I took place in the town council. In the evening the festival took place in the Separate Park. The summer. The car rally "Tsarskoye Selo - Rome" was started.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev, Stepan Yakovlevich
Addresses Malaya Street/Pushkin, town
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January. The writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov settled in Detskoye Selo. His addresses: 20 Kolpinskaya Street, 14 Malaya Street, and 9 Moskovskaya Street from 1929 untill 1941 (the memorial plaque was set here in 1961) ... | | January. The writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov settled in Detskoye Selo. His addresses: 20 Kolpinskaya Street, 14 Malaya Street, and 9 Moskovskaya Street from 1929 untill 1941 (the memorial plaque was set here in 1961). Here the writer finished the story "Stranniki" ("Pilgrims"), worked on the manuscript of "Yemelyan Pugachov", finished the novel "Ugryum-reka" ("The Ugryum River") in 1932. In Detskoye Selo in July of 1927 the writer got married Klavdia Mikhailovna Shvedova, who became his faithful friend for whole further life. On Fridays V.Ya. Shishkov's house was visited by the wide circle of the Detskoye Selo intelligentsia: writers A. Tolstoy, A. Bely, O.D. Forsh, critic R. Ivanov-Razumnik, the painter K. Petrov-Vodkin, the publisher P. Soykin, the scientist M. Bonch-Bruyevich, composers Yu. Shaporin and G. Popov, the singer I. Yershov and many other representatives of the art intelligentsia of Leningrad. The summer. The painter K.S. Petrov-Vodkin settled in the first floor of the Lyceum building. In 1928 the painter finished to paint the picture "Smert komissara" ("The Death of the Comissar"), on 4 October 1930 Petrov-Vodkin was awarded the title of the Honoured Artist of RSFSR. K. Petrov-Vodkin lived in Detskoye Selo untill 1936. The first edition of the "epoch-making" Tsarskoye Selo book "Gorod muz" ("The Town of Muses") by Erikh Fiedorovich Gollerbakch was published. The literary critic V.A. Manuylov, the author of books about M.Yu. Lermontov, rented a room in the former house of the Gumilyovs in Malaya Street.
Persons Bely Andrey (real name Bugaev Boris Nikolaevich) Bonch-Bruevich Mikhail Alexandrovich Ershov Ivan Vasilievich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Hollerbach Erich Fedorovich Ivanov-Razumnik (real name Razumnik Vasilievich Ivanov) Manuylov Viktor Andronikovich Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich Popov Gavriil Nikolaevich Shaporin Yury Alexandrovich Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Shvedova, Klavdia Mikhaylovna Soykin Peter Petrovich Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich
Addresses Malaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 14 Malaya Street/Pushkin, town Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 9 Pushkin, town
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First") ... | | Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First"), "Chernoye zoloto" ("the Black Gold"), the trilogy of novels "Khozhdeniye po mukam", consisting of "Sestry" (“Sisters”), "Vosemnadtsaty god" (“The Year 1918”), and "Khmuroe utro" (“A Gloomy Morning”), wrote the story "Gobelen Marii-Antuanetti" ("The Tapestry of Marie-Antoinette"), the tale "Zolotoy Klyuchik" ("The Golden key"), the libretto for Yu. Shaporin's opera "Dekabristi" ("Decembrists"), started the work on "Oborona Tsaritsina" ("The Defence of Tsaritsin"). He lived and worked here untill his departure to Moscow in 1938. The house of A.N. Tolstoy, the centre of the cultural life of Detskoye Selo of the 1930s, was visited by writers V.A. Rozhdestvensky, V.M. Inber, V.Ya. Shishkiv, O.D. Forsh, I.A. Andronikov, L.V. Nikulin, B.A. Lavrenev, M.M. Zoshchenko, the literary critic P.Ye. Shchegolev, artists G.S. Ulanova, Ye.I. Time, V.I. Kachalov, N.V. Pevtsov, M.F. Monakhov, the painter K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, composers Yu.A. Shaporin, V.M. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, D.D. Shostakovich, conductors A.V. Gauk, A.Sh. Melik-Pashayev, scientists A.F. Ioffe, A.M. Bonch-Bruyevich, L.D. Landau. During 1933-1934 A.N. Tolstoy was a deputy of the Detskoye Selo District Soviet, his articles were often published on pages of the district newspaper "Bolshevistskoye slovo" ("Bolsheviks' Word"). Repairing excavators was mastered in the Stream Locomotive Repair Base named after Uritsky (PPRMZ) under the direction of the talented engineer Vladimir Ivanovich Shkvokhin, who became the director of plants "Remputmash" of the Ministry of Transport.
Persons Andronnikov Irakly Luarsabovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky Valerian Mikhailovich Bonch-Bruevich Mikhail Alexandrovich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Gauk Alexander Vasilievich Inber Vera Mikhailovna Ioffe Abram Fedorovich Kachalov (the real surname is Shverubovich), Vasily Ivanovich Landau Lev Davydovich Lavrenev Boris Andreevich Melik-Pashayev, Aleksandr Shamilyevich Monakhov Nikolay Fedorovich Nikulin Lev Veniaminovich Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich Pevtsov Illarion Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Alexandrovich Shaporin Yury Alexandrovich Shchegolev Pavel Eliseevich Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Shkvokhin, Vladimir Ivanovich Shostakovich Dmitry Dmitrievich Time Elizaveta Ivanovna Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich Ulanova Galina Sergeevna Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
Addresses Tserkovnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 6
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