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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Shvede, L.R. hidden The Palace Power Electric Station. | |
The Palace Power Electric Station complex including the main building, service wing, fence and the historic support of electricity supply network was constructed in 1896-1898 to the design of the architect S.A ... | | The Palace Power Electric Station complex including the main building, service wing, fence and the historic support of electricity supply network was constructed in 1896-1898 to the design of the architect S.A. Danini which was approved by the Emperor. The Power Station was used for lighting the Alexander Palace, Great Tsarskoye Selo Palace and Vladimir Palace, all palace constructions, barracks of the Life Guard Combined Infantry Regiment and His Emperor Majesty Own Escort in Tsarskoye Selo. Construction work was led by S.A. Danini, the engineer-mechanic L.R. Shvede led the assembling of the wiring equipment , later he worked as the Head of the power station. The power station consecration and grand opening took place on 8 November 1898. The main building was intended for placing an office, engine and fire room, workshops and flats for workers. The wing was intended for placing a storehouse and service rooms. In 1946-1947 the equipment was dismantled, buildings were reconstructed for the industrial corporation “Leninets”.
Persons Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Shvede, L.R.
| | | | hidden The Pevchesky Water Tower | |
The building with thirty-metre tower intended for a water-lifting and electric power station was built in 1887 to the design of A.F. Vidov. The building was named after the name of former Pevchesky (now – Litseysky) Lane ... | | The building with thirty-metre tower intended for a water-lifting and electric power station was built in 1887 to the design of A.F. Vidov. The building was named after the name of former Pevchesky (now – Litseysky) Lane. The station was equipped with boilers and pumps made at the plant of F. San-Galli. The engineer- technologist M.I. Altukhov developed a project of the new water pipe line with cast iron pipes as well as changing the old wooden and ceramic pipes. The electric lighting of Tsarskoye Selo was started in the same 1887 when the tower was linked up to the town water line. Pumps, pumped water into the tower water-supply tank, at the same time put electric generators in action. The first alternating-current generators of the “Hanz and Co” system were installed by the engineer Grinevich, the electric lighting system was made by the engineer-technologist V.L. Pashkov. In the 1900s the all original electric equipment was changed with other mechanisms worked independently of steam pumps according to the design of the engineer L.R. Shvede. From the 1920s until 1950s the Pevchesky Water Tower was being a reserve electric power station and till recently it was used as a water tower.
Persons Altukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich Grinevich Shvede, L.R. Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Litseisky Lane/Pushkin, town
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8 January. A.P. Chekhov, as guest, arrived to D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak in Tsarskoye Selo. The almshouse, in the memory of the merchants Sinebryukhovs, for girls and aged women began to work in Moskovskaya Street. 14 May ... | | 8 January. A.P. Chekhov, as guest, arrived to D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak in Tsarskoye Selo. The almshouse, in the memory of the merchants Sinebryukhovs, for girls and aged women began to work in Moskovskaya Street. 14 May. The coronation of Emperor Nicholas I took place in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. The Palace electric power station was constructed (architect S.A. Danini). The inner electric equipment was installed by the prominent electric-engineer L.R. Shvede who became the first director of the electric power station. The electric power station began to work on 8 November 1898 (its present address is 3 Tserkovnaya Street). A.R. Bach took up the post of the architect of the Palace Board. His appartment was placed in the house at the corner of Leontyevskaya Street and Srednyaya Street. А.R. Bach was buried in the Kuzminsky Cemetery, his grave was restored in 2007 . The autumn. I.F. Annensky, poet and teacher, accepted the offer to take the post as the director of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Man Gymnasium. He received the official appartment at the gymnasium. Nikolai Nikolayevich Punin, the future art historian, literary critic, teacher, had entered the Nicholas Gymnasium. Valentin Krivich, son of Annensky, graduated from the gymnasium.
Persons Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky, Valentin Innokentyevich (pseudonym: Valentin Krivich) Bach Alexander Romanovich Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Mamin-Sibiryak (real name Mamin) Dmitry Narkisovich Nicholas II, Emperor Punin Nikolay Nikolaevich Shvede, L.R.
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