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ALEXANDER PALACE (Pushkin), an architectural monument in Neoclassical style; constructed in 1792-96 (architect G. Quarenghi); located on the territory of the Alexander Park ... | | ALEXANDER PALACE (Pushkin), an architectural monument in Neoclassical style; constructed in 1792-96 (architect G. Quarenghi); located on the territory of the Alexander Park. It forms a part of Tsarskoe Selo palace and park ensemble; was meant for the grandson of Empress Catherine II, Grand Prince Alexander Pavlovich (the future Emperor Alexander I), whom it was named after. Later on, it served as a private imperial residence (under Emperor Nicholas II - his permanent residence). The building of the Alexander Palace is placed along the axis of the transverse alley of the park, enclosing its perspective with the southern facade adorned with semirotunda dome. The main northern facade is marked with a double Corinthian colonnade set between symmetrical corbels. On the porch in front of the colonnade there are cast-iron statues, cast in 1838 in Alexandrovsky Factory to the designs of sculptor N.S. Pimenov (The youth, playing knucklebones) and A.V. Loganovsky (The youth, playing fid). After the February Revolution of 1917 Nicholas II and members of his family were kept in the Alexander Palace until they were exiled to Tobolsk. From 1918, the Alexander Palace functioned as a palace-museum. In 1949, in it the exposition of the All-Union Museum of Alexander Pushkin was opened, shortly afterwards it was closed down, as the building was given to a military department. As a result the Alexander Palace suffered greatly because of incorrect maintenance. Since the 1990s, reconstruction has been conducted, a number of halls host museum displays. The interiors decorated to the plans of architects V.P. Stasov (1817-27) and R.F. Meltzer (1896-98). References: Александровский дворец и парк в г. Пушкине. Л., 1937; see also the article Tsarskoe Selo. A. A. Alexeev.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Catherine II, Empress Loganovsky Alexander Vasilievich Meltzer Roman (Robert-Friedrich) Fedorovich Nicholas II, Emperor Pimenov Nikolay Stepanovich Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich Quarenghi Giacomo Stasov Vasily Petrovich
| | | | hidden Barracks of the Fourth Life Guard Rifle Imperial Family Regiment | |
The barracks occupies the whole area opposite the Catherine Park and the Admiralty on Parkovaya Street and limited by Kadetsky Boulevard, Krasnoy Zvezdi (Red Star) Street and Ogorodnaya Street ... | | The barracks occupies the whole area opposite the Catherine Park and the Admiralty on Parkovaya Street and limited by Kadetsky Boulevard, Krasnoy Zvezdi (Red Star) Street and Ogorodnaya Street. During 1864-1917 building, locating here, occupied by the Fourth Life Guard Rifle Imperial Family Regiment (until 1910 it was a battalion). Soldiers’ barracks of this regiment were placed in two big blocks, built as living buildings in 1783-1785 according to Ch. Cameron’s “ a standard model of a big house” to Sophia Town, the appearance of which is recognized in facades survived until our days. One of buildings was intended for General A.D. Lanskoy and was built by G. Quarenghi on the remade design of Ch. Cameron. After Lanskoy’s death in 1784 his house and grounds were bought by Catherine II from his heirs and got the fame as “Sophia House” of the tsesarevich or the Konstantin Palace because during 1794-1817 the owner of a part of the building (at first 6 windows, then 9 windows from the park side) was Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich. A wing for married lower ranks of the Fourth Rifle Regiment was built in the 1790s as the outbuilding of the Konstantin Palace. The other part of the building was occupied by the Tsarskoye Selo Board, the Forestry Institute and the Engineer department of the Military department. Among owners of the second building in the late 18th century and early 19th century there was the Scottish stonemason Lavrenty Stitman, Sophia Town merchant Kirila Lomakin, the collegiate assessor and cavalier Platon Sokolov, the Gzhatsk merchant Yemelyan Cheblokov, Sophia Town merchant Afanasy Yevseyev, English merchant Yegor Eno. In 1813-1819 both buildings were adapted for the Noble Lyceum boarding school according to the design of the architect V.P. Stasov. In 1824-1829 detached buildings of the boarding school, which was separated by Admiralty Street, were rebuilt again to the design of V.P. Stasov and connected with an one-storied gallery. In 1831 the Alexander Cadet Corps for juvenile children was placed here. Later only connective block was changed in the building appearance, it was overbuilt with the second floor in 1838-1841 to the design of the architect V.V. Kokorev. During 1859-1863 the Officer Rifle School was temporarily placed here, afterwards soldiers’ barracks of the Fourth Life Guard Rifle Imperial Family Regiment was placed in the building. In the 1910s, in connection with the increase in the number of riflemen up to four-battalion regiment, an adjoining plot with buildings of the Fifth and Sixth squadrons of the Life Guard Hussar His Emperor Majesty Regiment were joined to the barracks of the imperial riflemen (1850-1857, the 1880s, the buildings were rebuilt for soldiers-riflemen in the 1910s), also new barracks were built. Manezhny Lane, separated barrack complexes, was destroyed at the same time. The auxiliary squadron wings of the Hussar Regiment, mainly built in 1850-1857, were rebuilt for riflemen: barracks of the seventh reserve squadron, barracks and cook-houses of trumpet-player team, a school for soldiers’ children, a wing of married lower ranks, storerooms. Street facades of stable and horse hospital of the Hussar Regiment, rebuilt in the 1910 by the architect V.I. Yakovlev for needs of the Fourth Rifle Regiment, were decorated with many-column porticos in the spirit of the Neo-classicism architecture. Neo-classicism forms and large-scale dimensions were used for decoration of facades of the Officers’ Assembly building with flats for officers of the Fourth Rifle Regiment built in 1913-1914 by the architect V.I. Yakovlev. Also the Battalion building (1912-1914) in Kadetsky Boulevard and the Soldiers’ School (1911-1915) were built in the heart of the barrack complex by V.I. Yakovlev jointly with the architect Ye.O. Konstanovich. After 1917 units of the Red Army were placed here, from 1948 the High Navy Engineering Colledge named after V.I. Lenin, reorganized in the Navy Engineering Institute in 1999, has been placed here.
Persons Cameron Charles Catherine II, Empress Kokorev, Vasily Vasilyevich Konstantin Pavlovich, Grand Prince Konstantinovich, Yevstafy Iosifovich Lanskoy Alexander Dmitrievich Quarenghi Giacomo Stasov Vasily Petrovich Yakovlev Vsevolod Ivanovich
Addresses Kadetsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town Krasnaya Zvezda Street/Pushkin, town Ogorodnaya Street/Pushkin, town Parkovaya Street/Pushkin, town
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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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QUARENGHI Giacomo (1744-1817), architect, representative of Neoclassicism. Native of Italy. From 1761 (according to the other data sources, from 1763) studied painting and architecture in Rome. At the end of 1779, he came to St ... | | QUARENGHI Giacomo (1744-1817), architect, representative of Neoclassicism. Native of Italy. From 1761 (according to the other data sources, from 1763) studied painting and architecture in Rome. At the end of 1779, he came to St. Petersburg and became a court architect. In 1814, he was became a member of the Russian nobility. The first significant works of Quarenghi was the English Palace in Peterhof (1781-1794, destroyed in 1942) a classical monumental building with a Corinthian portico. In Tsarskoye Selo, Quarenghi built A.D. Lanskoy mausoleum (Kazan Church, 1785-90), Kitchen Ruins, Concert Hall (1784-86) and Alexandrovsky Palace (1792-96) with a walk-through colonnade, connecting it with the park. Among the buildings created by Quarenghi in St. Petersburg are public buildings: Academy of Sciences, Collegium of Foreign Affairs, the Stock Exchange building (reconstructed by J.F. Thomas de Thomon), the Assignation Bank, the Hermitage Theatre; buildings of beneficent and educational organizations: the Smolny Institute and the Catherine Institute, St. Mary's Hospital; churches: the English Church, the Maltese Chapel; town houses of counts A.A. Bezborodko, F.I. Groten, I.F. Vietinghof. The wooden Narva Triumphal Gate is dedicated to the victory over France. Quarenghi's style is characterised by emphasized continuous laconism, simplicity of space-planning, consummate usage of the order system (the Raphael Loggia, see the Hermitage, Winter Palace Halls). He was a perfect draftsman and left many drawings of Russian architectural monuments. In 1780-1783, he lived at 15 Nevsky Prospect, in 1809-17, at 32 Dvortsovaya Embankment (memorial plaque). He was buried in Volkovskoe Lutheran Cemetery; in 1967 his ashes were transferred to the Necropolis of the 18th century. As of 1923, a side street near Smolny Cathedral bears the name of Quarenghi. The monument to Quarenghi is standing in front of the Assignation Bank (1967, sculptor L.K. Lazarev, architect M.N. Meysel). Reference: Пилявский В. И. Джакомо Кваренги: Архитектор. Художник. Л., 1981; Коршунова М. Ф. Джакомо Кваренги // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XVIII век. СПб., 1997. С. 719-769; G. Quarenghi: аrchitetto a Pietroburgo: Lettere e altri scritti. Venezia, 1988; Fabbriche e disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi. Bergamo, 1994; Giacomo Quarenghi: Architetture e vedute. Milano, 1994. V. V. Antonov.
| | | | hidden The Concert Hall (an ensemble of the Catherine Park) | |
The most perfect pavilion of the Catherine Park was built in 1782-1788 by G. Quarenghias “a hall for music with two studies and opened temple devoted to Ceres” ... | | The most perfect pavilion of the Catherine Park was built in 1782-1788 by G. Quarenghi as “a hall for music with two studies and opened temple devoted to Ceres”. During constructing the attempt took place to change the pavilion name to the Temple to Friendship, but this attempt was suppressed by the Empress herself, who wrote as regards this, “I hate the word Temple on the Kitchen”. Subjects of facades’ bas-reliefs: a lyre in a tympanum of the pediment, the myth about Orpheus, the Goddess Ceres with Apollo playing music before her, as well as nymphs with attributes of arts show that the pavilion was intended for holding concerts in the circle of elite on the background of pastoral landscapes of English-style park. Austere facades with Tuscan order porticos, a rotunda, frieze with bucranium show the perfection of antique forms. Sculptors M.I. Kozlovsky and K. Albani, painters- decorators D. Valensini, F.D. Danilov and G. Scotti, “artificial marble master” L. Shefler, “carving and gilding master” F. Bryullo took part in building the pavilion. Fancy multicoloured decoration of interiors of the pavilion is original. Artificial marble of walls, fresco plafonds and pictures, using the antique encaustic technique, sculpture bas-reliefs and medallions, ornamental design compositions and mythological plots (Juno in a chariot, Cronos, signs of the zodiac) point the architect’s keenness on antiquity. The original antique mable floor with black and white mosaic “The Abduction of Europe” in the central Musical hall is dated to 1-3 centures AD and was brought from Rome in 1784. Two tiny rooms are located at the rotunda sides. One of them (the Sculpture study) was decotared with four sculpture bas-reliefs: allegories of painting, sculpture, architecture and sciences. The another one (the Painting study room) was decorated with pictures painted in encaustic technique. The pavilion interiors were restored to the 300-years anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo. It is opened for visiting in summer.
Persons Brullo Fedor Pavlovich Kozlovsky Mikhail Ivanovich Quarenghi Giacomo Shefler, L. Valesini, G.
| | | | hidden The Concert Hall on the Island of the Great Pond, a pavilion (an ensemble of the Catherine Park) | |
The first in Tsarskoye Selo a park entertaining pavilion Lusthaus, in the form of a octagonal balk wooden gallery, was built by the architect I.K. Ferster in 1723 just here, on an artificial island of the Great Pond ... | | The first in Tsarskoye Selo a park entertaining pavilion Lusthaus, in the form of a octagonal balk wooden gallery, was built by the architect I.K. Ferster in 1723 just here, on an artificial island of the Great Pond. On the place of the Lusthaus in 1746-1748 the architect S.I. Chevakinsky built the Hall on the Island, the new rectangular pavilion, with rich Baroque interior and outside decoration which was changed more than once. The architect F.-B. Rastrelli and sculptors D.-B. Djani and G.-F. Partir worked here. Then G. Quarenghi introduced elemets of the Classical style into the pavilion architecture. He worked jointly with painters- decorators F. Danilov and A. della Jakoma. The Hall on the Island was intended for holding concerts and receptions. From the time of Catherine II a wind band sometimes played in here, the Empress liked listening to the music being in the Grotto pavilion. People were delivered to the island by a ferry, there were two ferry piers, or by boats. On present days in summer concerts are held in the pavilion where public is delivered by the ferry.
Persons Catherine II, Empress Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich Foerster, I.K. Giacoma, A. della Partir, G.-F. Quarenghi Giacomo Rastrelli Francesco de
| | | | 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
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The Great and Little Caprice were built in 1772–1774 by the architect V.I. Neyelov and the engineer I. Gerard over the road led to the Great Tsarskoye Selo Palace. The road was named “Under Caprice road”. There are many legends concerning caprices ... | | The Great and Little Caprice were built in 1772–1774 by the architect V.I. Neyelov and the engineer I. Gerard over the road led to the Great Tsarskoye Selo Palace. The road was named “Under Caprice road”. There are many legends concerning caprices. According to a legend the name is related with too large amount of money spent for building the constructions. Allegedly, looking through too large estimate for building two gates, the first one of big size with a Chinese summerhouse located on the top, and the second one of smaller size, Catherine II said, “Do it like this, it’s my caprice!”. Many ways are directed away from the Great Caprice not only to the park but to more distant places. Catherine II never informed her courtiers about routes of walks and trips in advance. According to another legend the construction was named “The Great Caprice” because of the Tsarina often did surprises for her courtiers, who went with her on a pleasure-trip without luggage and did not suppose that the Empress, passed the arch of the Great Caprice, could suddenly order to turn to Petersburg. Caprices formed the entrance in the Triangular Ground of the Catherine Palace as well as into Catherine and Alexander parks. At the same time caprices are grounds for viewing the remarkable ensemble of constructions in the Chinese style: the Creaking Chinese Summerhouse and the Chinese Village. Artificial ramp-banks went to both Caprices’ tops from both parks. It’s possible to cross from one park to another using the ramp-banks.
Persons Catherine II, Empress Gerard Ivan (Johann Konrad) Kondratievich Neelov Vasily Ivanovich Quarenghi Giacomo
Addresses Pushkin, town
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The cemetery name comes from the village of Kuzmino. Founded in 1714 by peasants- resettlers from villages of the Moscow, Yaroslavl, Vologda and Kostrona regions, later the village has grown in the rich many-populated village of Bolshoye Kuzmino ... | | The cemetery name comes from the village of Kuzmino. Founded in 1714 by peasants- resettlers from villages of the Moscow, Yaroslavl, Vologda and Kostrona regions, later the village has grown in the rich many-populated village of Bolshoye Kuzmino. The imperial residence in Tsarskoye Selo was created by the village inhabitants’ work. Probably , Lukoyanov, a peasant of Kuzmino Village who made glazed tiles for the Tsarskoye Selo Palace of Catherine I, the Belomoins, peasants of Kuzmino Village, the palace contractors and house-owners of Tsarskoye Selo, Tatyana Ivanova, a peasant of Kuzmino Villahe who was a confidante of Empresses Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II, as well as an unknown woman-peasant of Kuzmino Village whose portraits were painted by the court painters on Emperor’s order were buried in this cemetery. In 1747 the wooden Church of the Assumption was transmitted from a closed cemetery located in the palace sloboda (district) of Tsarskoye Selo to the cemetery of the village of Kuzmino where the church was consecrated in the name of the Annunciation of the Mother of God. There are no earlier information about the cemetery and church, but the title of the village as “sloboda” in the late 1710s confirms about their presence. The stone Church of the Annunciation with the Italian appearance of the outstanding beauty was built in 1783-1785 to the design of G. Quarenghi instead of the wooden cemetery church. The Icon of the Mother of God of Kazan, seen at the source at the foot of a hill to Kuzmino Village peasant Marfa Yekimova, was saved in this church for a long time. The Kuzmino cemetery on an equal footing with the aristocratic Kazan cemetery was the burial place of many famous citizens of Tsarskoye Selo. V.I. Neyelov, the founder of the dynasty of Tsarskoye Selo architects, was buried here in 1782(9?) (The gravestone was restored in 1957). Burial places of his family and sons I.V. Neyelov and P.V. Neyelov were lost as well as the family burial place of the architects Kokorevs, the grave of the famous publisher P.P. Soikin and many others. In 1941-1944 the village of Bolshoye Kuzmino and the Church of the Annunciation, that were at the defence leading edge, were destroyed. Defenders of blockade Leningrad took cover and died near the cemetery trees and the church walls. Now the monument the Home Guards of The Green Belt of Glory, two memorial guns of which are placed in front of the entrance into the cemetery, remember about their feat of arms.
Persons Belomoins, the Ivanova, Tatyana Kokorevs, the Lukoyanov Malyshevs, the Neelov Ilya Vasilievich Neelov Vasily Ivanovich Quarenghi Giacomo Soykin Peter Petrovich
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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 ... | | 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. The funeral of A.D. Lanskoi was at the new place at the outskirts of Sophia Town and then the Kazan Cemetery was founded at this place. Four year city college was founded. From 1911 the college was placed in its' own building, that was constructed to the design by the civil engineer L.P. Shishko in Nizhny Boulevard (its present address is 40 Oranzhereynaya Street ) The Sophia Post Yard was founded near the Orlov Gates. The Babolov Palace was constructed and the Babolov Park was laid out to the design by V.I. Neyelov.
Persons Lanskoy Alexander Dmitrievich Neelov Vasily Ivanovich Quarenghi Giacomo Shishko Lev Petrovich
Addresses Oranzhereinaya Street/Pushkin, town
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The Alexander Palace was constructed by Giacomo Quarenghi for Grand Duke Alexander ( the future Emperor Alexander I), the beloved grandson of Empress Catherine II ... | | | | | | | | |
