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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Akhmatova Anna Andreevna hidden Akhmatova A.A. (1889-1966), poet | |
AKHMATOVA Anna Andreevna (nee Gorenko) (1889-1966), poet, Honorary Doctor of Oxford University (1965). She spent her childhood (until 1905) in Tsarskoe Selo (the corner of Shirokaya Street and Bezymyanny Lane ... | | AKHMATOVA Anna Andreevna (nee Gorenko) (1889-1966), poet, Honorary Doctor of Oxford University (1965). She spent her childhood (until 1905) in Tsarskoe Selo (the corner of Shirokaya Street and Bezymyanny Lane, the house and the lane have not been preserved, today Vokzalnaya Square), studied at Mariinskaya School (17 Leontievskaya Street, memorial plaque), at Kiev High Women’s Courses (1908-10). After marriage (in 1910-18 she married N.S. Gumilev) she settled in Tsarskoe Selo again, and had been living mainly there until 1916 (Malaya Street, the house has not been preserved, today lot of house 57); in 1914-17 she lived also in Petersburg (17 Tuchkov Lane). In 1911 she joined the Poets' Guild and became the major representative of the acmeism trend; collections of verses Evening (1912), Rosary (1914), The White Flock (1917), Plantain (1921), Anno Domini MCMXXI (1922) were reprinted many times. Akhmatova herself was a bright figure of St. Petersburg (Petrograd) literaterary life, frequent sitter of painters, and addressee of many poetic dedications. Akhmatova was one of the authors and the brightest examples of Petersburg text of Russian literature (V.N. Toporov). St. Petersburg of the early 20th century and Tsarskoe Selo were not only background but also a constant hero of Akhmatova's lyrics (In Tsarskoe Selo, Verses about Petersburg, A Statue from Tsarskoe Selo, Leningrad in the March of 1941, Ode of Tsarskoe Selo, Pushkin's Town, and others); many of her memorial notes are devoted to them. The image of St. Petersburg - Leningrad changed in Akhmatova's works in due course: a number of significant details shading subjacent novel themes of the early lyrics; horrible reality of the terror of the 1930s and the Siege (Requiem, verses of Wind of War cycle); historical descriptions and histriosophic insights of the 1940-60s (key role of the city in Poem Without a Hero). Many addresses of Akhmatova are at Fontanka River Embankment: № 18, autumn 1921 to autumn 1923; № 2, 1924; № 34 (south wing of Fontanny Dom, - see Sheremetev Palace, from 1989 - Memorial Museum of A.A. Akhmatova; memorial plaque) - 1918-20, 1926-52 (with intervals), or close to Fontanka: the spring of 1921 - 7 Sergeevskaya Street (today Tchaikovskogo Street); 1919-25 (periodically) 5 Millionnaya Street (servant's corps of the Marble Palace). In 1941-44 Akhmatova was in evacuation in Tashkent. In 1946 she became (together with M.M. Zoshchenko) an object of shattering criticism in a resolution of Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party about Zvezda and Leningrad journals, was excluded from the Union of Writers. In 1952-61 she lived at 4 Krasnoy Konnitsy Street (today Kavalergardskaya); then at 34 Lenina Street. After the War she spent a lot of time in Moscow and Komarovo at a summer cottage of the Literature Foundation (the so called “Booth” at 3/5 Osipenko Street). She was awarded Etna Taormina International Literature Prize (Italy, 1964). She died in Domodedovo, near Moscow. She was buried at Komarovskoe Cemetery. There is a monument of Akhmatova in the yard of gymnasium № 209 (8 Vosstaniya Street). Former Vokzalnaya Street in Pushkin was renamed to Akhmatovskaya Street for her 100 anniversary. References: Топоров В. Н. Петербург и петербургский текст русской литературы: (Введение в тему) // Топоров В. Н. Миф. Ритуал. Символ. Образ: Исслед. в области мифопоэтического: Избранное. М., 1995. С. 259-367; Попова Н. И., Рубинчик О. Е. Анна Ахматова и Фонтанный дом. СПб., 2000; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 347-365; Вербловская И. С. Горькой любовью любимый: Петербург Анны Ахматовой. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. СПб., 2003. T. M. Dvinyatina.
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ANNENSKY Innokenty Fedorovich (1856-1909, St. Petersburg), poet, playwright, translator, critic, and teacher promoted to Actual Civil Counsellor in 1896. He graduated from the department of history and philosophy of Petersburg University with a ... | | ANNENSKY Innokenty Fedorovich (1856-1909, St. Petersburg), poet, playwright, translator, critic, and teacher promoted to Actual Civil Counsellor in 1896. He graduated from the department of history and philosophy of Petersburg University with a major in literature in 1879. He served in the Ministry of Public Education until his dying day. He was the director of the Eighth Petersburg Gymnasium at 8 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island in 1893-96 and director of Nicholas Gymnasium at 12 Naberezhnaya Street, Tsarskoe Selo, where he also lived from 1896 to 1905. Among his students were N. S. Gumilev, D. I. Kokovtsev, and N. N. Punin. He started to appear in print with his reviews, critical essays, and educational articles from the early 1880s. He published his first collected verses, Quiet Songs, under the name of Nic. T-o in 1904 and the second collected verses, Cypress Casket, published after his death in 1910. He was the first to translate Euripides’ tragedies into Russian completely in verse. Ancient Greek motifs affected Annensky’s own dramas including Famira-kifared, Laodamia, etc. He wrote collected critical essays Book of Reflections in 1906 and a Second Book of Reflections in 1909. He was one of the founders of Apollon journal in 1909 and a member of the Society of Literature Enthusiasts founded by the magazine editors. Annensky played a key role in Russian literature of the 1910s, his works having a major impact on Gumilev, A. A. Akhmatova, O. E. Mandelstam, B. L. Pasternak, G. V. Adamovich, et al. He last lived at 11 Zakharzhevskaya Street in Tsarskoe Selo, the house is not preserved. He died of a heart failure on the stairs of the Tsarskoe Selo Station (today, Vitebsky Railway Station). Buried at Kazanskoe Cemetery, Tsarskoe Selo. References: Лавров А. В., Тименчик Р. Д. Иннокентий Анненский в неизданных воспоминаниях // Памятники культуры: Новые открытия: Ежегодник, 1981. Л., 1983. С. 61-146; Федоров А. В. Иннокентий Анненский: Личность и творчество. Л., 1984; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 221-245. Т. М. Dvinyatina.
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GUMILEV Lev Nikolaevich (1912, Tsarskoe Selo - 1992, St. Petersburg), orientalist, ethnographer, Ph.D. (Doctor of Historical Sciences, 1961; and Geographical Sciences, defended his thesis in 1974 ... | | GUMILEV Lev Nikolaevich (1912, Tsarskoe Selo - 1992, St. Petersburg), orientalist, ethnographer, Ph.D. (Doctor of Historical Sciences, 1961; and Geographical Sciences, defended his thesis in 1974, academic degree not confirmed by the Higher Degrees Commission). Son of N.S. Gumilev and A.A. Akhmatova. From 1929, he lived in Leningrad, worked on geological expeditions (1931-34). In 1934-38, Gumilev studied at the Historical Faculty of the Leningrad State University, taking an external degree in 1946. He was subjected to repression on series political charges (1935, 1938-43, 1949-56). In 1944-45, he served in the Soviet Army, taking part in several battles. In 1946-47 he was a post-graduate student of the Institute of Oriental Studies, and in 1949 a researcher for the State Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of the USSR. In 1956-62, he worked as a librarian at the Hermitage. In 1962-86, he worked at the Geography Scientific Research Institute (NII) of the Leningrad State University, lecturing at the University's Geographical Faculty. Author of works on the history and ethnography of Turkish people (Huns, Khazars), Mongols, and Slavs. Subscribed to the idea of Eurasianism, studying the history of Russia in the context of the history of Eurasian plains peoples. Put forth the theory of ethnogenesis, the formation and development of an ethnos, which defines an ethnos as a biosocial formation that undergoes a number of stages in its development. In 1990-92, he lived at 15/1 Kolomenskaya Street (memorial plaque installed). Buried at the Nikolskoe Cemetery of Alexander Nevsky Lavra. References: Лавров С. Б. Лев Гумилев: Судьба и идеи. М., 2000. A. Y. Chistyakov.
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HOLLERBACH Erich Fedorovich (1892, Tsarskoe Selo - 1942) art historian, literary critic, bibliophile. In 1911-17, he studied at the Psychoneurological Institute ... | | HOLLERBACH Erich Fedorovich (1892, Tsarskoe Selo - 1942) art historian, literary critic, bibliophile. In 1911-17, he studied at the Psychoneurological Institute, at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics and at the Faculty of History and Philology of Petrograd University. He was a staff member of the Russian Museum in 1921-24; from 1923 he was in charge of the artistic department of the Petrograd Department of the State Publishing House. He was one of the founders and a head of the Leningrad Society of Bibliophiles (1923-26). He is the author of works on the questions of graphic art, monographs about the creative works of by M. V. Dobuzhinsky (1923), G. K. Lukomsky (1928), B. M. Kustodiev (1929), Alexander Pushkin, V. V. Rozanov, A. A. Blok, A. A. Akhmatova et al., of books, articles and guide books about Tsarskoe Selo, including the anthology Tsarskoe Selo in the Poetry (1922) and of the book with lyrical prose City of Muses (1927; a more profound edition illustrated by himself - 1930). He lived in Tsarskoe Selo in the corner of Moskovskaya Street and Leontyevskaya Street (the house has not been preserved). He died in Vologda while being evacuated during the blokade. Works: Meetings and impressions. St. Petersburg, 1998. O. L. Leikind, D. Y. Severyukhin.
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KLYUEV Nikolay Alexeevich (1884-1937), poet, prose writer. Studied in Vytegra Church School, then in the two-class Mining School. His works were published from 1904 onwards. The first verse collections, The Chime of Pine-Trees (1911), dedicated to A ... | | KLYUEV Nikolay Alexeevich (1884-1937), poet, prose writer. Studied in Vytegra Church School, then in the two-class Mining School. His works were published from 1904 onwards. The first verse collections, The Chime of Pine-Trees (1911), dedicated to A.A. Blok and numerous magazine publications gained Klyuev the fame as an original people's poet oriented to North Russian folklore. The stylistic talent of Klyuev became apparent in the collections Brothers' Songs (1912), True Stories of the Wood (1913), Worldly Thoughts (1916), Coppery Whale (1919), Lion's Bread (1922). He paid short visits to St. Petersburg, during one of them, in September of 1911, he had his first personal meeting with Blok (they had previously been in correspondence) and S.M. Gorodetsky; evidently, it was then he also me with N.S. Gumilev and A.A. Akhmatova and his interaction with the founders of the Guild of Poets started (until February 1913). His longest stay in Petrograd was from October 1915 to January 1916, and again until the summer of 1917 (intermittently). This was a period of close friendship with S.A. Esenin (participation in Krasa Literary and Art Association, then - Strada Association, public appearances, etc.) they are credited with the creation of new peasants' poetry. In 1915-18 lived at the flat of his sister K.A. Rasshcheperina (149 Fontanka River Embankment). The years of 1918-22 he spent in Vytegra. In 1923-32 again lived in Petrograd - Leningrad (45 Bolshaya Morskaya Street). Arrested in 1934 in Moscow, served his sentence in Tomsk. There he was again arrested in June 1937 and shortly afterwards executed by shooting. Reference: Азадовский К. М. Жизнь Николая Клюева: Док. повествование. СПб., 2002. T. M. Dvinyatina.
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The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky ... | | The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky. Constructing works were made under the direction of the architect N.S. Nikitin. The office rooms and Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky’s flat were placed here. In 1865-1866 A.F. Vidov adapted for a gymnasium of the Mariinsky department. He retained the main staircase and central main hall as well as the flat of the Governor that was put to a chief master of the gymnasium. The opening of the gymnasium took place in this building on 7 February 1865. The first principle was the famous teacher N.A. Vyshnegradsky. Y.V. Zakharzhevsky was one of founders and the first trustee. In connection with rising the number of pupils the building was rebuilt and enlarged in 1874-1875 on A.F. Vidov’s project. In 1906-1907 the building was rebuilt again, it was overbuilt one more floor according to the project of the architect G.D. Grim and under the direction of the civil engineer V.A. Lipavsky. The decorating facades with rustics and window’s wedge key stones placed in fanlike way and superimposing each other date from the original architectural decoration of the building. The decoration of arch windows and attic completion was used by G.D. Grim in overbuilt third floor. A.A. Gorenko the future poetess A.A. Akhmatova , was learning in the Mariinsky Gymnasium during 1900-1905.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Grimm German Davidovich Lipavsky, V.A. Nikitin, N.S. Vidov Alexander Fomich Zakharzhevsky, Ya.V.
Addresses Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 17
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Architect N.S. Nikitin constructed the office building of the Chief Manager of the Palace Board, according to the design by D.E. Efimov. During 1865-1866 architect A.F. Vidov accomodated this building for the gymnasium ... | | | | | | | hidden | | |
The Gorenkos' family with children Andrei, Inna, Irina and Anna (the future poet A.A. Akhmatova) settled in the house of Shukhardina in Shirokaya ... | | | | | | | hidden | | |
The palm hothouse designed by the architect A. Bach was constructed behind the Manege building and later it was transferring into Saint Petersburg, near the Taurida Palace. Architect A ... | | The palm hothouse designed by the architect A. Bach was constructed behind the Manege building and later it was transferring into Saint Petersburg, near the Taurida Palace. Architect A. Bach finished the construction of the apartment house for the policemen in the Cathedral square. The experimental purification equipment, first in Russia, was installed at this house. 20 May. V.I. Ulyanov Lenin and L.O. Tsederbaum (Martov) moved illegally from Pskov to Peterburg. For the conspiracy they got off the train at the Aleksandrovskaya Station and went through the parks to the Tsarskoye Selo Station and then in 9 a.m. they moved to Petersburg. They were arrested by police at the Vitebsk Station The autumn. Anna Gorenko (А. Akhmatova) had entered the Tsarskoye Selo Mariinskaya Woman Gymnasium. 15 October. The ceremonial opening of the monument to Pushkin in the Lyceum Garden took place. The monument was constructed to the design by sculptor R.R.Bach and architect А.R.Bach.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Bach Alexander Romanovich Bach Robert Romanovich Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich Martov L. (real name Tsederbaum Yuly Osipovich)
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10 March. The meeting of Nicholas II with Prime Minister P.A. Stolypin after his speech in the Second State Duma meeting on 3 March, where Prime Minister's famous words sounded: "They want great shocks, we want great Russia" ... | | 10 March. The meeting of Nicholas II with Prime Minister P.A. Stolypin after his speech in the Second State Duma meeting on 3 March, where Prime Minister's famous words sounded: "They want great shocks, we want great Russia", took place in the Alexander Palace. Nicholas II has written in his diary "I received Stolypin in the first time after his sucsessful speech in the Duma ("we are not intimidated")". September. The family of the painters Kardovskys settled in Konyushennaya Street (now it is the house no. 29). The Kardovskys' flat became the centre of attraction of the arts life of Tsarskoye Selo. They were visited by N. Gumilyov, I. Annensky, A. Akhmatova, M. Viloshin, V. Komarovskaya and many others. The autumn. R.V. Ivanov-Razumnik, a critic, publicist, journalist, specialist in study of literature, settled in the house no. 20 in Kolpinskaya Street. Children's bones-tuberculosis sanatorium of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna was opened, it was built on the donations of private persons.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Ivanov-Razumnik (real name Razumnik Vasilievich Ivanov) Kardovsky Dmitry Nikolaevich Komarovsky, Vasily Alekseyevich, count Nicholas II, Emperor Stolypin Peter Arkadievich Voloshin Maximillian Alexandrovich
Addresses Konyushennaya Street/Pushkin, town Pushkin, town
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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
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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
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17 January. In the Alexander Palace, Crown Prince of Serbia Alexander was received. 3 February. In the Alexander Palace, Nicholas II received Maurice Paleologue, the new French ambassador, and all members of the French Embassy. 24 June ... | | 17 January. In the Alexander Palace, Crown Prince of Serbia Alexander was received. 3 February. In the Alexander Palace, Nicholas II received Maurice Paleologue, the new French ambassador, and all members of the French Embassy. 24 June. The laying of the new barracks of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the Escort Unit took place in the presence of Nicholas II. 20 July. The Manifesto declaring the war against Germany was signed . August. Princess V.I. Hedroitz re-equipped the Tsarskoye Selo palace hospital for the surgery of wounded men and she taught the Empress, Grand Duchess Olga and Grand Duchess Tatyana to work as nurses, then they regularly nursed in a hospital from 1914 until the summer of 1917. 5 August. А. Akhmatova , N.Gumilev (he was dressed in military uniform) and A. Blok had dinner at the Tsarskoye Selo Station in Petersburg. 28 August. The hospital "Their Majesties Grand Duchesses Maria Nikolayevna and Anastasia Nikolayevna was opened at the Fiodorovsky Cathedral" . During 1914 only in Tsarskoye Selo more than 50 hospitals were opened, including the hospitals in private houses. 1 September. The information about the defeat of Austria troops in Galitsia and along the front was received in Tsarskoye Selo. 6 November. Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna with her daughters Olga and Tatyana, together with 42 nurses of the 1st military graduates, succefully passed the examination and received nurse certificates in the building of the Red Cross Society in Leontyevskaya Street. Architect V.А. Pokrovsky constructed barracks of the 3rd Life-Guard Infantry Regiment, in Kadetsky Boulevard, designed in the spirit of the old defence constructions of Russian towns. November. Artist О.L.Della -Vos- Kardovskaya finished the portrait of А.Akhmatova and drew the statue of " Rome Matrona" of the Catherine Park into the album of the poet; А.Akhmatova, in her poem "In Tsarskoye Selo", named this statue as "her marble twin" The end of November. Funerals of warriors, who perished in battles of WWI or died from injuries later in the hospitals of Tsarskoye Selo, were began on the plot near the Kazansky cemetery, on the initiative of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. More than 1,000 warriors were buried here from 1914 until 1917.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Blok G.P. Della-Vos Kardovskaya, Olga Ludvigovna Gedroits, Vera Ignatyevna, princess Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Nicholas II, Emperor Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Princess Paleologue Georges Maurice Pokrovsky Vladimir Alexandrovich Tatyana Nikolaevna, Grand Princess
Addresses Kadetsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town
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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
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13 February. At the house of the literary critic and A.Akhmatova's true friend N.V. Nedobrovo Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova presented her "treasured black ring" to the artist Boris Anrep who was the addresse of many poems written by A. Akhmatova ... | | 13 February. At the house of the literary critic and A.Akhmatova's true friend N.V. Nedobrovo Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova presented her "treasured black ring" to the artist Boris Anrep who was the addresse of many poems written by A. Akhmatova . A.Akhmatova met again with B.Anrep only after 38 years. 19 April. Nicholas II, the Empress, Grand Duchess Yelizaveta Fiodorovna took part in the funeral service for the soldiers perished during the war at the Communal cemetery in Tsarskoye Selo. 20 April. Poet Sergei Esenin did military service for a fixed period as an orderly (he served until 17 March 1917 ) at the military train no. 143 of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna, the train was attributed to the hospital of the Fiodorovsky Town. 12 August. Aerodrome and barracks of the Aviation unit were constructed near the Fiodorovsky Town. 5 November. The laying of the wooden church for the future complex of the Serafimovsky hospital-shelter of A.A. Vyrubova took place outside the Alexander Park and near the dam connecting the Kuzminka River and the Lower Llama Pond. The religious service was performed by Melkhisedek, the bishop of Kronstadt, with the assistance of A.Vasilyev, an archpriest and the confessor of Their Imperial Majesies, and A.Belyayev, the senior prist of the Fiodorovsky Cathedral, and Isidor, a bishop, in the presence of the Empress and Grand Duchesses and also A.Vyrubova with G.Rasputin. 25 November. In the Alexander Palace Nicholas II presented Grand Duke Pavel Aleksandrovich, the commander of the 1st Guard Corps, with the Order of St. Georgy. November. Father Ioann (Kochurov) was appointed as the parish prist of the Cathedral of St. Catherine in Tsarskoye Selo . 17 December. The news about the murder of Grigory Rasputin had been arrived in Tsarskoye Selo. The constructing of the 1st stage of the ensemble of barracks of the Own His Imperial Majesty Escort was finished by the architect V.N. Maksimov. 21 December. The zinc coffin with the body of G.E. Rasputin was secretly buried in the church being built at the Serafimovsky shelter of Tsarskoye Selo in the presence of the Imperial Famili (with the exeption of Tsesarevich Alexei) and several of close family friends. Archpriest A. Vasilyev performed the funeral service . 31 December. In the Alexander Palace, Nicholas II received Buchanan, the English ambassador, at the State Cabinet and the ambassador had the unsucceful attempt to persuade the Tsar on the compromise with Russian bourgeoisie concerning the interior policy.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Anrep, Boris Vasilyevich Belyayev, Afanasy Ivanovich, archpriest Buchanan George William Elizaveta Fedorovna, Grand Princess Esenin Sergey Alexandrovich Ioann Kochurov, Archpriest Isidor (Yakov Sergeevich Nikolsky) Maksimov, Vladimir Nikolayevich Nedobrovo, Nikolay Vladimirovich Nicholas II, Emperor Pavel Alexandrovich, Grand Prince Payevsky, Mikhail Lvovich (Melkhisedek) Rasputin Grigory Efimovich Vasilyev, Aleksandr Petrovich, archpriest Vyrubova Anna Alexandrovna
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The Aircraft Workshops started to work again then it was transformed into the Aircraft Maintenance Plant, the ancestor of the Aircraft Maintenance Plant No.20 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation which has been being untill now ... | | The Aircraft Workshops started to work again then it was transformed into the Aircraft Maintenance Plant, the ancestor of the Aircraft Maintenance Plant No.20 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation which has been being untill now near Krasnoselsky Road. August. A.A. Akhmatova, who had a treatment in the sanatorium of the Holy Trinity community of nurses (its present address is 1 Pushkinskaya Street), received the news about the shooting of N.S. Gumilyov.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich
Addresses Pushkinskaya Street/Pushkin, town
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The spring. A.A. Akhmatova, O.E. and N.Ya. Mandelshtam lived in the boarding house of Zaitsev in Detskoye Selo where they were visited by Pavel Luknitsky collecting materials about N.S. Gumilyov ... | | | | | | hidden | | |
13 January. Igor Rybakov, a fearless member of an underground organization, graduate of the secondary school of Pushkin Town, was executed by firing squard in Gatchina. 16 January ... | | 13 January. Igor Rybakov, a fearless member of an underground organization, graduate of the secondary school of Pushkin Town, was executed by firing squard in Gatchina. 16 January. After previous powerful bombardment, the 110th infantry corps, under the command of Major General I.V. Khazov, began the offencive from the Pulkovo Heights to the front line near Pushkin Town; the corps included three divisions: the 56th division under the command of General С.М.Bunkov, the 72th division under the command of Colonel I.I.Yastrebov and the 85th division under the command of Colonel K.V. Vvedensky. Enemy emplacements were destroyed by bombing by pilots of the 275th fighter plane division. 17 January. The 56th division captured Aleksandrovka, the defence center, and cut the Warsaw Railway. The 59th infantry regiment under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union Kh.M. Krasnokutsky struck the main shock. 24 January. The 213th infantry regiment of the 56th infantry division under the commnad of Colonel А.К.Ryabushev was the first that entered Pushkin Town at 2:40 a.m. Lieutenant I.E. Sviridyuk, aide-de-camp of the regiment commander, rose the Red Banner above the Lyceum arch. Pushkin Town was liberated from the Nazi envaders. ""Troops of the Leningrad front, continuing the successful offencive, today, 24 January, as the result of the turning manoevre and swift attack to the front, captured Pushkin Town (Tsarskoye Selo) and Pavlovsk Town (Slutsk). Troops under the command of Colonel General Maslennikov, Major General Khazov, Major General Bunkov, Major General Yastrebov, Colonel Vvedensky, artillerymen of Major General Mikhalkin, artillerymen of Colonel Maslovsky and members of tank crews of Lieutenant Colonel Gryazeshvili were distinguished during the the battles for the capture of Pushkin Town and Pavlovsk Town. In commemoration of the victory, detachments and units , that were the most distinguished during the battles, are recommended for conferring the titles "Pushkinskaya" and "Pavlovskaya" and for awarding Orders." (From the order of Supreme Commander-in-Chief. 24 January 1944) 24 January, 9 p.m. 124-gun salute with twelve salvos took place in Moscow devoted to the libaration of Pushkin Town and Pavlovsk Town. 10 March. The work for the restoration of the water supply system and purification plant of Puskin Town was began under the management of Dmitry Ivanovich Trinkov. 13 April. Lieutenant General Ivan Vasilyevich Khazov, who was the commander of the 110th infantry corps which liberated Pushkin Town and Pavlovsk Town, was deadly wounded during the army operation near Pskov City. His dying wish was to bury his body in Pushkin Town and this wish was realized. The grave of I.V. Khazov was placed in the Alexander Park near the Chinese Theatre. 8 May. Writer Aleksei Tolstoy, who came in Pushkin Town on business of the Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, visited Pushkin Town and his home at Proletarskaya Street for the last time in his life. According to the Extraordinary Commission, the damage, inflicted to the town, was estimated at Rb 5,4 billion (the estimating was made on the basis of prices of 1944): 1555 houses were completely destroyed, 1413 houses were damaged by bombardments, about 500 houses were preserved ( the total living space was 27000 square metres). About 59 citizens were in Pushkin Town on the first liberation day. 6 June. The ceremonial meeting, devoted to the anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin, was held in the Palace of Culture building . Many poets and writers made speeches, A.A. Akhmatova was among them. The memorial room of A.S. Pushkin was opened in the Lyceum. 11 June. The Track Repair-Mechanics Plant began to work again on the basis of the restoring trains which having come. Simultaneously, the restoration of the production basis was began. By 1953 at the Track Repair-Mechanics Plant the repair of electric-ballasters and snowplough machines was arraged, the electric power stations on the basis of the caterpillar tractor DT-54, the special trains for the transporting of the long railway tracks, self-unloading goods trucks SP-4 and other railway machinery were manufactured . 6 August. Air Observation Military School (now it is the Order of Red Star Pushkin Military Institute of Electronics of Space Troops named after Marshal of Aviation E.Y. Savitsky), was re-deployed into the barracks of the military town in Sophia Town in Pushkin Town according to the order of the Leningrad Military Region Command. October. The first schools for 970 pupils, one clinic, one day nursery for 80 children, 3 shops, 3 canteens were opened in Pushkin Town after the war, 289 houses were occupied. By 1946 Pushkin Town had a population of about 3000. 26 November. The first issue of the newspaper "The Bolshevik Word" , resumed after the liberation of the town, was published.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Bunkov, Stepan Mikhaylovich Gryazeshvili Khazov, Ivan Vasilyevich Maslovsky, Georgy Nikolayevich Mikhalkin, Mikhail Semyenovich Ryabushev, A.K. Rybakov, Igor Sviridyuk, I.Ye. Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich Trinkov, Dmitry Ivanovich Vvedensky, Konstantin Vladimirovich Yastrebov, Ilya Ivanovich
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8 June. The Divine Liturgy was performed in the Cathedral of St. Sophia, the first church given to the Russian Orthodox Church after stopping the policy of theomachy in Russia. By 2009 eight Orthodox churches have been opened in the town ... | | 8 June. The Divine Liturgy was performed in the Cathedral of St. Sophia, the first church given to the Russian Orthodox Church after stopping the policy of theomachy in Russia. By 2009 eight Orthodox churches have been opened in the town. 23 July. On the day of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Anna Akhmatova the commemorative plaque was opened on the building of the Mariyinskaya Gymnasium; the exposition devoted to the memory of "Tsarskoye Selo Muse" was opened in the "Museum of History of Pushkin Town". The poet's son Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyev was present at the both events.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Gumilev Lev Nikolaevich
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