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CATHERINE PALACE (Town of Pushkin), an architectural monument of the Baroque period, compositional centre and dominating architecture of the park and palace ensemble of Tsarskoe Selo ... | | CATHERINE PALACE (Town of Pushkin), an architectural monument of the Baroque period, compositional centre and dominating architecture of the park and palace ensemble of Tsarskoe Selo. In 1717-1723, on this site a small stone palace of Empress Catherine I (architect I.F. Braunstein) was constructed concurrently with the establishment of the Catherine Park. From 1743, work on the palace extension was started (architect M.G. Zemtsov), after his death work continued under the guidance of architects A.V. Kvasov and S.I. Chevakinsky. From late 1748 - architect F. Rastrelli. In May of 1752, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna ordered everything that had been erected earlier to be reconstructed and in 1756 the Catherine Palace was completed. At this stage it consisted only of the western parade court, framed by single-story semicircular buildings - surrounded with splendid wrought railings with gilded details and gates along the central axis of the palace. The facades are decorated with moulded figures of caryatids, cartouche, masks (sculptor I. F. Dunker), marked with ochre colour against the turquoise background (up to the 1770s, the stucco work was gilded). Originally the front staircase was in the south section of the Catherine Palace, on the second floor were also located the "Golden Enfilade", comprising of five "antechambers", double tiered Grand Hall and a number of sitting rooms, their fretwork above the doors created an impression of a gold stream. Among the interiors is the Amber Room. The length of the Catherine palace's facades is over 325 metres. The central part of the building (The Middle House) has retained the parameters of the palace of Catherine I. The side wings that replaced the original open terrace unite the central part with the wings: to the north there is a church (1779-84, architect I.V. Neelov) and to the south - Zubovsky (1778-1784, architect Y.M. Felten). Under Catherine II, in the 1780s, new interiors were added according to the designs of C. Cameron: the Arabesque and the Lyon sitting rooms, the Silver Study and others in the south part of the Catherine Palace, the rooms of the Grand Prince Pavel Petrovich (the Green dining-room, the Bedchamber and others) in the northern part. To the south-eastern side of the Catherine Palace the complex of the so-called Cameron Gallery, the Cold Bath (Agate Pavilion), the hanging garden and the ramp (1780-87; 1792-94) are united. In 1817-20, and in the 1840s architect V.P. Stasov made some changes in the palace's interiors, in 1860-63 architect I. A. Monighetti (Chinese front staircase in the central part). Since 1918, the Catherine Palace has been a palace-museum, in 1941-44, it was practically levelled, restoration following the project of architect A.A. Kedrinsky was launched in 1957. Restoration works continue up to the present. See also "Tsarskoe Selo" article. A. A. Alexeev.
Persons Braunstein Johann Friedrich Cameron Charles Catherine I, Empress Catherine II, Empress Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich Dunker Johann Franz Elizaveta Petrovna, Empress Felten Yury (Georg Friedrich) Matveevich Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich Kvasov Andrey Vasilievich Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich Neelov Ilya Vasilievich Paul (Pavel) I, Emperor Rastrelli Francesco de Stasov Vasily Petrovich Zemtsov Mikhail Grigorievich
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In the Tsarskoye Selo Palace of Tsarina Catherine Alexeyevna at first there was an camp private chapel of St. Catherine the Great Martyr. The main sight of this church was a carved iconostasis of dark blue colour ... | | In the Tsarskoye Selo Palace of Tsarina Catherine Alexeyevna at first there was an camp private chapel of St. Catherine the Great Martyr. The main sight of this church was a carved iconostasis of dark blue colour. Building the palace church, being now, was begun in spring of 1746 to the design and under direction of S.I. Chevakinsky. The ceremonial laying of the Church of the Resurrection, performed by the Eminent Theodosius, Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Schlusselburg, was been on 8 August of the same year in the presence of Empress Elisabeth, Heir Tsesarevich Pyetr Fiodorivich and his wife Catherine Alexeyevna. During bulding Elisabeth Petrovna ordered to remake a piece of done work and continue building under the direction of the chief-architect F.-B. Rastrelli. Court painters G.-K. Grot, L. Karavak, B. Tarsia, I.Ya. Vishnyakov, A. Perezinotti were recruited to painting icons. In total in the church there were 114 icons, 59 of them were painted and 14 were corrected by famous icon-painter Fedot Kolokolnikov and Mina Kolokolnikov. The painting plafond with the image of the Ascension of Our Lord was painted by the painter G. Valeriani with assistants. Carving work was made by I.F. Dunker. The decoration of the interior was completed and Eminent Sylvester, Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Schlusselburg, consecrated the Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord on 30 July in 1756 . Religious services in the Palace Church of the Resurrection were performed by the court clergy during staying the Imperial court in Tsarskoye Selo. The Imperial retinue, ministers, diplomats, courtiers, officers of Life Guards regiments are present at the services. On Sundays and holidays the pupil of the Lyceum could be seen near Alexander I during liturgies. The historian Karamzin with his family visited the church. Weddings of the Imperial family members and courtiers, christening of the Imperial family babies, who were born in Tsarskoye Selo, took place in the church. The future emperors Nicholas I and Nicholas II were among them. The church parish included the palace officials, lived in Tsarskoye Selo permanently. In 1917 public religious services were stopped and the church interior was included in the museum exposition. The church interior had magnificent forms in the Baroque style. It was not subjected to considerable changes although the building experienced fires in 1820 and 1863. After the first fire the artist V.K. Shebuyev restored the lost in fire plafond, the church domes were restored to the design of the architect V.P. Stasov, their silhouettes were changed. The restoration of the original view of domes in the Baroque style were made by the architect A.F. Vidov after the second fire. During World War II the church inside decoration was plundered and got considerable damages, 97 icons were robbed, only some fragments were survived. After war restored repair of facades was made during 1957-1963 to the design of the architect A.A. Kedrinsky . But the church interior of the Palace Church has not been restored yet.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Catherine II, Empress Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich Dunker Johann Franz Elizaveta Petrovna, Empress Grot, G.-K. Karamzin Nikolay Mikhailovich Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich Kvasov Andrey Vasilievich Nicholas I, Emperor Nicholas II, Emperor Peter III, Emperor Rastrelli Francesco de Stasov Vasily Petrovich Tarsia, B. Valeriani Giuseppe Vidov Alexander Fomich
| | | | hidden The White Tower (an ensemble of the Alexander Park). | |
The pavilion White Tower of 38-metre-high, the highest construction in Tsarskoye Selo, was built by the architect A. Menelaws on the place of the Menagerie lusthouse in 1821-1827. The ensemble was designed as a Middle-Age knight castle-fortress ... | | The pavilion White Tower of 38-metre-high, the highest construction in Tsarskoye Selo, was built by the architect A. Menelaws on the place of the Menagerie lusthouse in 1821-1827. The ensemble was designed as a Middle-Age knight castle-fortress. It includes some constructions: the Gate-Ruin with guardhouses, decorative Ruin Bridge, East bulwark of the Menagerie. The White Tower is placed on the bastion ground. The tower walls were plastered and painted in white color so it got the name white tower. The tower-castle is placed inside of spacious bastion ground, earlier it was surrounded with flowerbeds. The five-storeyed building of square section was divided in three tiers run up with ledges decorated with forged grilles. Sculpture lions are placed in the corners of the terrace which is the foot of the tower. Eight statues of Middle-Aged and Old-Russian knights, made of cast iron, were placed in niches in tower walls. An interior winding stairs led to the roof of the upper tier surrounded with the parapet. Here there was an inspection ground from which could be admired with views of parks, Tsarskoye Selo and its environs, even Saint Petersburg was seen. Photographs of Tsarskoye Selo for postcards, which were widely distributed in the early 20th century, were shot from this ground. The White Tower was almost completely destroyed during the war and restored according to the design of the architect A.A. Kedrinsky. The restoration was doing during almost twenty years and has not been finished yet. The Ruin-Gate with guardhouses built in the Gothic style forms the entrance into the White Tower. The Ruin-Gate looks like ruins of fortress constructions, it is monumental and imitates castle entrance with the falling herse. A moulding with the heraldic coat of arms was placed over the arch. An earth bank was located in front of the gate in side as if it protects the entrance to the White Tower from the Farm road. According to the star-form of the layout the bank looks like a kronverk, an auxiliary defence construction in front of a fortress. A ditch joined with a small pond surrounded the bank. Sons of Emperor Nicholas Pavlovich were visual taught fortification on building the earth fortification. Later a high mast with rope-ladders was set inside of the “star”; a trampoline was spread around the mast. In summer when the park was opened for public, many children gathered here.
Persons Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich Menelas Adam Adamovich Nicholas I, Emperor
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Society for the protection of maternity and babies began to work under the management of Professor N.V. Yastrebov in the building of the Maternity Orphanage of Drozhzhina (the present address is 14 Pavlovsky Road) ... | | Society for the protection of maternity and babies began to work under the management of Professor N.V. Yastrebov in the building of the Maternity Orphanage of Drozhzhina (the present address is 14 Pavlovsky Road). The Woman Gymnasium of the Ministry of Public Education was opened in the building designed by A.R. Bach on Cathedral Square (its present address is 28 Pushkinskaya Street). 5 January. Priest of the Fiodorovsky Cathedral A. Kedrinsky, the grandfuther of the future honorary citizen of Pushkin Town, the restorer- architect A.A. Kedrinsky, sprinkled by consecrated water, after the water consecration prayer, the private rooms of the Emperor family. 22 February. In honour of the Tercetenary of the House of the Romanovs the competitions in skiing, shooting, fire brigades working, and the football between the Tsarskoye Selo team and the Pavlovsk team and other sport events were organized at the former racecourse on the initiative of the Tsarskoye Selo automobile-sport society. 6 March. In Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas II received Patriarch of Antioch and Metropolitan of Tripoli who arrived with congratulations and gifts on the occasion of the Tercetenary of the House of the Romanovs. 8 March. In the Alexander Palace 30 bankers of Petersburg and Moscow passed Rb 1, 000 million to the Emperor for the charity in the memory of the Tercetenary of the House of the Romanovs. 14 March. In the Alexander Palace, the meeting of the Imperial Russian Historical Society, in honour of the Tercetenary of the House of the Romanovs, took place, scientific papers, devoted to the time of the election of Mikhail Fyodorovich for the Russian throne, were read. 23 March. Delegation of the Lyceum pupils presented the Fiodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God to the Emperial Family on the occasion of the Tercetenary of the House of the Romanovs. 28 May. In the Cave-Temple of the Fiodorovsky Cathedaral, the Prayer of Thanksgiving was performed in the presence of the Imperial Family devoted to their returning after the journey across Russia on the occasion of the Tercetenary of the House of the Romanovs. Artillery-General Vasily Fyodorovich Bely, a hero of Port Arthur, died in Tsarskoye Selo and was buried in Kazansky cemetery (the grave is preserved) . 23 December. V.N. Voyeikov was appointed the palace commandant ( he was born in Tsarskoye Selo in 1868 ), formerly he was the commander of the Tsarskoye Selo Life-Guard Hussar Regiment (1907-1913 гг.). Major General of Retinue Voyeikov, the palace commandant, headed all constructing works in Tsarskoye Selo. The famous Russian artist Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin settled at the dacha on Srednyaya Street and he lived in the town during the hunger-stricken years of the Civil War. K.S. Stanislavsky, Y.M. Yuryev, A.M. Gorky, L. Leonidov, citizen of Tsarskoe Selo E.F. Gollerbach and others persons visited him in Tsarskoye Selo until his death in 1930. In the Alexander Park, the "Local Nature Museum" was arranged by V.Moldengauer, the prominent scientist-researcher of forests.
Persons Bach Alexander Romanovich Bely, Vasily Fyodorovich Golovin Alexander Yakovlevich Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov) Hollerbach Erich Fedorovich Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich Kedrinsky, A. Leonidov, Leonid Mironovich Moldengauer, Viktor Fyedorovich Nicholas II, Emperor Stanislavsky Konstantin Sergeevich Voyeykov, Vladimir Nikolayevich Yastrebov, N.V. Yuryev Yury Mikhailovich
Addresses Pavlovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 14 Pushkinskaya Street/Pushkin, town
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Houses having living space of 48,700 square metres were put into housing in the Pushkin district (houses were built in Kommunarov Street, Karl Marx Street, Kikvidze Street, Leningradskaya Street). November ... | | Houses having living space of 48,700 square metres were put into housing in the Pushkin district (houses were built in Kommunarov Street, Karl Marx Street, Kikvidze Street, Leningradskaya Street). November. For this month 500 men gave their blood for medicine without money. Students of the Agricultural Institute were the first donors. The first halls of the Catherine Palace were opened after the restoration work (interiors of Ch.Cameron). Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kedrinsky became the chief architect of the project of the restoration and reconstruction works of the palace-and-park ensemble in Pushkin Town, he worked at this post until his death in 2004 .
Persons Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich
Addresses Kadetsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town Leningradskaya Street/Pushkin, town Srednaya Street/Pushkin, town
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6 June. The reconstruction of the Lyceum was finished; the reconstruction was based on the research work of the Lyceum keeper M.P. Rudensky and the design of the architect A.A. Kedrinsky ... | 6 June. The reconstruction of the Lyceum was finished; the reconstruction was based on the research work of the Lyceum keeper M.P. Rudensky and the design of the architect A.A. Kedrinsky. Restoration and building works were produced by the Pushkin Repair-Building Company. 22 November. A branch of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Science on the Non-chernozem zone of RSFSR was opened in the house no. 32 in Sofiysky Boulevard. The branch was headed by eminent scientists, academicians L.K. Ernst (from 1974 untill 1978), V.M. Kryazhkov (from 1978 untill 1983), G.V. Blagoveshchensky (from 1983 untill 1985), V.G. Mineyev (from 1985 untill 1988), N.G. Dmitriyev (from 1988 untill 1996). Since 2001 the North-Western department was headed by the academicians I.Ye. Yankovsky and I.A. Tikhonovich. Scientific and systematic centres of the Non-chernozem zone departments consolidate 31 research plots where 1600 research workers including 15 academicians, 12 members of the Academy, 129 Doctors of Science and 513 Bachelors of Science.
Persons Blagoveshchensky, G.V. Dmitriyev, Nikolay Grigoryevich Ernst, Lev Konstantinovich Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich Kryazhkov, Valentin Mitrofanovich Mineyev, Vasily Grigoryevich Rudenskaya Marina Petrovna Tikhonovich, Igor Anatolyevich Yankovsky, Ivan Yevstafyevich
Addresses Sofiisky Boulevard/Pushkin, town
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Restoration works of the regular part of the Catherine Park were finished according to the design of A.A.Kedrinsky and N.E. Tumanova ... | | | | | | hidden | | |
The architect A.A. Kedrinsky (the author of more then three hundred restoration projects) was awarded the Lenin Prise for the restoration of the palace-and-park ensembles of Leningrad environments. V.S ... | | The architect A.A. Kedrinsky (the author of more then three hundred restoration projects) was awarded the Lenin Prise for the restoration of the palace-and-park ensembles of Leningrad environments. V.S. Kochubey's mansion (4 Radishchev Street), used as a country house of the Leningrad Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, was given to the Educational Centre for Training Managers of the system of the St Petersburg State Technical University. December. Yury Parfyenovich Nikiforov was elected the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of the Pushkin District, since 1991 Nikiforov has been working as the Head of the District Administration. In total Yury Parfyenovich Nikiforov worked in the executive administration during eighteen years and he was awarded the Order of "The Friendship of Nations", he was the winner of the competition "Russian Mayor - 95"; in 2000 he was conferred the title "Honorary Citizen of Pushkin Town".
Persons Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich Nikiforov, Yury Nikiforovich
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October. The Pushkinsky district had a population of 116,800 including 56,100 fit to work.November. Official meeting of the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin with the President of the US G ... | | October. The Pushkinsky district had a population of 116,800 including 56,100 fit to work. November. Official meeting of the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin with the President of the US G. Bush took place in the Blue Chamber of the Catherine Palace. A.A. Kedrinsky, chief architect of the State Museum Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo", author of the reconstruction of the Amber Room, was awarded the Premium of the President of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art.
Persons Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich
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