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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Gornostaev Vasily Maximovich hidden Children’s House, a pavilion (an ensemble of the Alexander Park) | |
A pavilion with the Late Classicism style facades was constructed in 1827-1830 to the design of V.M. Gornostayev . At first it was intended for summer pastime of children of Emperor Nicholas I: the Heir and Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolayevich ... | | A pavilion with the Late Classicism style facades was constructed in 1827-1830 to the design of V.M. Gornostayev . At first it was intended for summer pastime of children of Emperor Nicholas I: the Heir and Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolayevich, the future Emperor Alexander II, and Olga, Maria, Alexandra, three his sisters. A lounge, located in the center of the house, was used for joint games. Four small rooms, for the each of the children, were located on every lounge sides. Wooden partitions between rooms could be slid apart. Interiors with small children’s furniture were decorated with modeling, plafonds were covered with the fancy painting in Louis XIV style. Children’s House was located in the terrace of the artificial Children Island in the center of the Children’s Pond. Ferries carrying people to Children’s House went across the pond between granite piers. The house and island were the favourite place for games of children of Alexander III and Nicholas II . There was an original “children’s ground” with the landscape planning, toys and garden tools, a ”cape of kind Sasha”, a grove, planted by emperor’s children, marble busts of teachers of Alexander II, the poet V.A. Zhukovsky and K.K. Merder.
Persons Alexander II, Emperor Alexander III, Emperor Gornostaev Vasily Maximovich Nicholas II, Emperor Zhukovsky Vasily Andreevich
| | | | hidden The Babolovo Palace (an ensemble of the Babolovo Park) | |
Catherine II walking along the Taitsi water supply system noticed a nice hill on the Kuzminka River right bank. It was situated near the village of Babolovo aside of the Babolovo cutting. In 1780 a wooden house with outbuildings were built there ... | | Catherine II walking along the Taitsi water supply system noticed a nice hill on the Kuzminka River right bank. It was situated near the village of Babolovo aside of the Babolovo cutting. In 1780 a wooden house with outbuildings were built there. A stone building with the bathing hall and marble bath was built in 1783-1785 at this place by the architect I.V. Neyelov, the author of bath pavilions in the Catherine Park. The main interiors for resting were painted by F.D. Danilov. Iogann (John) Bush laid out a small landscape garden. In the 1810-1820s the palace and garden were included in the landscape composition of the Babolovo Park newly-created by F.F. Lyamin. In 1824-1829 the bathing hall was rebuilt to the design of V.P. Stasov and under the direction of V.M. Gornostayev for installing the huge bath which was cut out of Serdobolsky granite by the stonemason S.K. Sukhanov’s team. Emperors Alexander I, Alexander II , Nicholas II liked to include the Babolovo palace and park in their walking tours. During the war the palace was destroyed with a fire and has not been restored yet. The bathroom hall with the bricked vault and Sukhanov’s bath have been survived.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Alexander II, Emperor Bush Iogann Catherine II, Empress Gornostaev Vasily Maximovich Lyamin, F.F. Neelov Ilya Vasilievich Nicholas II, Emperor Stasov Vasily Petrovich Sukhanov Samson Xenofontovich
| | | | hidden The house of Ya. Kitayev (with the fence and garden) | |
A design of an one-storied house with a mezzanine and garden was developed in 1926 by the architect V.M. Gornostayev for Ya.V. Kitayev, a valet of emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I. When Ya.V ... | | A design of an one-storied house with a mezzanine and garden was developed in 1926 by the architect V.M. Gornostayev for Ya.V. Kitayev, a valet of emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I. When Ya.V. Kitayev was a young man he was Paul I favourite hairdresser and a master of curling. The wooden house was built in two years. However this house is more famous as a country house of A.S. Pushkin, where the museum of the poet is placed now. Here A.S. Pushkin and his wife spent the summer and a part of the autumn of 1831. Kitayev died soon and the house was passed from his widow to Privy Councillor F.I. Pryanishnikov, a famous patron of art and an owner of a picture gallery. Since 1877 it was owned to O.I. Ivanova who enlarged the house, added entrance rooms on sides and tambours, and removed the main entrance to Dvortsovaya Street. In 1910 the marble plaque with the inscription “A.S. Pushkin lived here from 25 May until 20 October 1831” was installed on the house façade according to the owner approval. In 1949 the house was restored. Interiors of the first floor, sitting and dining rooms, were restored to the design of V.M. Gornostayev and furnished with the furniture of Pushkin’s time style. The memorial museum was opened in 1958.
Persons Gornostaev Vasily Maximovich Kitayev, Ya.V. Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Addresses Pushkinskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 2
| | | | hidden The Moscow Gate (Pushkin Town) | |
The Moscow Gate, representing two stone guardhouses with gate folds between them, was constructed in 1830-1831. Facades of the guardhouses was decorated in the Empire style. Ya. V ... | | The Moscow Gate, representing two stone guardhouses with gate folds between them, was constructed in 1830-1831. Facades of the guardhouses was decorated in the Empire style. Ya. V. Zakharzhevsky, a Governor of Tsarskoye Selo, himself received the project, approved by the Emperor on 14 December 1829, from the Emperor. Nicholas I with his own hand marked off by the pencil the place of the gate location on the plan in Sophia Boulevard, at the beginning of Moscow Road. The estimate for building work was calculated by the architect V.M. Gornostayev. The cast iron gate folds, cast on V.A. Glinka’s drawing and installed in 1831, were decorated with imperial eagles with crowns. Figures of eagles and crowns were annihilated after 1917.
Persons Glinka Vasily Alexeevich Gornostaev Vasily Maximovich Nicholas I, Emperor Zakharzhevsky, Ya.V.
Addresses Sofiisky Boulevard/Pushkin, town
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The construction of the Egyptian Gates (architect A.Menelaws) and the Moscow Gates designed by V.M. Gornostayev, V.A. Glinka and A.P. Gildenbrandt was finished ... | | | | | | | | |
