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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Malaya Street/Pushkin, town hidden | 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
| | | hidden | 11 January. The memorial plaque with the inscription "The Emperor Lyceum Was Placed in This Building from 1811 untill 1843" was opened on the building of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum by the 100th anniversary of its founding ... | | 11 January. The memorial plaque with the inscription "The Emperor Lyceum Was Placed in This Building from 1811 untill 1843" was opened on the building of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum by the 100th anniversary of its founding. The Lyceun graduaters, who arrived in the special train on the Tsar railway branch line, took part in the ceremonial event. 1 February. A meeting of literary men of the association "The Workshop of Poets" took place in the Gumelyovs' house in Malaya Street. Anna Akhmatova's first poem collection "Vecher" ("The Evening"), in many respects evoked by Tsarskoye Selo impressions, was issued on 8 March. 3 September. The upper church (it was built to the design of V.A. Pokrovsky) of the Theodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, which was the "inherited blessing" of the Romanovs' House, was consecrated and the cave-church (it was built to the design of V.N. Maksimov) of St. Seraphim of Sarov was consecrated on 10 December. The Tsar Railwas Station was built to the design of the architect V.A. Pokrovsky on the place of the wooden pavilion, burned in 1911, for the own Emperor railway branch line. 18 September. The son Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov, the future scientist, author of many books on the history of Russia, was born in the family of Gumilyov and Akhmatova. Lev Gumilyov was baptized in the Cathedral of St. Catherine in Tsarskoye Selo on 7 November 1912. Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Gumilev Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Maksimov, Vladimir Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Vladimir Alexandrovich Addresses Malaya Street/Pushkin, town
| | | hidden | 2 January. The train collision took place at the railway line linked Peterburg and Tsarskoye Selo. Anna Vyrubova, a maid of honour and close friend of the Empress, was seriosly injured at this disaster. A ... | | 2 January. The train collision took place at the railway line linked Peterburg and Tsarskoye Selo. Anna Vyrubova, a maid of honour and close friend of the Empress, was seriosly injured at this disaster. A. Vyrubova was often visited by Grigory Rasputin and members of the Imperial Family at her house in Tserkovnaya Street during her illness. January. Prince Vladimir Palei, a son of Grand Duck Pavel Aleksandrovich, was conferred the cornet of the Life-Guard Hussar Regiment, and in February, he was sent to the front where he was permanently with the exception of the short leaves. His first collection of poems was published in 1916. March. The Society for the Revival of Art Russia was organized at the Fiodorovsky Cathedral. D.N. Loman, colonel of the Life-Guard Pavlovsky Regiment, churchwarden of the cathedral, was the organizer of this society ( he was shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918 ). Prince A.A. Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, an expert on the Old Russian Art, began the chairman of this society. Many representatives of old nobility families, priests, successful merchants became founders of the society. Artists A.M. Vasnetsov, V.M. Vasnetsov, M.V. Nesterov, N.K. Roerich, I.Y. Bilibin, architects A.V.Shchusev, V.V. Suslov, A.N. Pomerantsev and other art persons took part in the work of this society. 5 May. Holder of the Order of St. George N.S. Gumilev was referred to the Catherine Palace hospital for the treatment of the serious cold got at the front. 8 July. Near the Fiodorovsky Cathedral, the public prayer was performed on the gift of victory in the presence of the Imperial Family and participants of the religious processions of Tsarskoye Selo. 3 August. Nicholas II and with his daughters visited the new barracks of the Excort Unit and the building of Officer assemble (architect V.N. Maksimov). 14 August. In the report of S.N. Vilchkovsky, the chief authorized person of the Tsarskoye Selo branch of the Red Cross, to Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna was written: "161 hospitals having 383 beds for officers and 7,858 beds for lower ranks were opened in the district of the Tsarskoye Selo special evacuation point". 18 August. The laying of the wooden church "The Healer of Sorrows" took place at the Communal cemetery to the design of S.Y.Sidorchuk, in 48 days the ready-made church was consecrated in the presence of the Imperial Family. . This church burnt down during WWII . The military cemetery was destroyed under Soviet rule and there were vegetable gardens of citizens at its place until 2000 . 22 August. Nicholas II decided to take the post of Supreme Commander-in-Chief and he moved to Mogilev Town from Tsarskoye Selo. The Emperor announced his decision at the Corner Drawing Room in the Alexander Palace during the meeting of Coincil of Ministers on 20 August 1915 . 25 October. In Tsarskoye Selo, Nicholas II received the written petition of the St. George Duma of South-West front about awarding the Cross of St.George of 4th degree to him. The Tsarskoye Selo international radio station began to work. 25 December. In the Manege, the Imperial Family gave presents at the festival with the Christmas tree on the occasion of the Nativity of Christ. 1,200 soldiers of the Tsarskoye Selo garrison took part in the festival. 25 December. Poets S. Esenin and N. Klyuyev visited Gumilev and Akhmatova at the house in Malaya Street. Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Bilibin Ivan Yakovlevich Esenin Sergey Alexandrovich Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Klyuev Nikolay Alexeevich Loman D.N. Maksimov, Vladimir Nikolayevich Nesterov Mikhail Vasilievich Nicholas II, Emperor Paley, Vladimir Pavlovich Pavel Alexandrovich, Grand Prince Pomerantsev Alexander Nikanorovich Rasputin Grigory Efimovich Roerich, Nicholas Konstantinovich Shchusev Alexey Viktorovich Shirinsky-Shikhmatov Alexey Alexandrovich Sidorchuk S.Y. Suslov Vladimir Vasilievich Vasnetsov Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich Vyrubova Anna Alexandrovna Addresses Malaya Street/Pushkin, town Tserkovnaya Street/Pushkin, town
| | | hidden | 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
| | | hidden | 15 July. The great Russian poet Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev died in Ivanova's house in Malaya Street. He was burried in the cemetery of the Novodevichi Convent in Saint Petersburg ... | | | | | |