"Office of Buildings of Tsarskoye Selo" and "Inherited Estate Administration" were united into the Tsarskoye Selo Office. It was subordinated to the Hof-Intendant Office from 1797.
May. G.R. Derzhavin wrote the poem " Walk at Sarskoye Selo" glorifying Tsarskoye Selo and the joy of existence.
1 June. G.R. Derzhavin visited, after the invitation of Catherine II, the Great Tsarskoye Selo Palace with Senior-Equerry L.A. Naryshkin, Prince G.A. Potiomkin, Count A.V. Suvorov-Rymninsky, Count S. P. Rumyantsev .
12 December. G.R. Derzhavin was appointed the private secretary of state of Catherine II. He has the personal study at the Tsarskoye Selo Palace but he lived in the Chinese Village where there was, according to words of the poet I.I. Dmitriyev, "Refuge of secretaries of the Empress".
Persons
Catherine II, Empress Derzhavin Gavriil Romanovich Dmitriev Ivan Ivanovich Naryshkin Lev Alexandrovich Potemkin Grigory Alexandrovich, Gracious Prince of Tauride Rumyantsev Sergey Petrovich Suvorov Alexander Arkadievich, Count
