Tsarskoye Selo and the Town of Pushkin

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The municipal formation of «The Town of Pushkin»

Chronicle of three centuries

1617 - 1725	1801 - 1825	1901 - 1925
1726 - 1750	1826 - 1850	1926 - 1950
1751 - 1775	1851 - 1875	1951 - 1975
1776 - 1800	1876 - 1900	1976 - 2010

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The Pantheon of military glory

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Elizaveta Fedorovna, Grand Princess

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The Tsarskoye Selo Common Cemetery of World War I Heroes.
The first Common Cemetery of World War I heroes was founded in September 1914 according to the initiative of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. It occupies a plot near the Kazan Cemetery and was under the special patronage of the Empress ...
The first Common Cemetery of World War I heroes was founded in September 1914 according to the initiative of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. It occupies a plot near the Kazan Cemetery and was under the special patronage of the Empress. Its territory was fenced in, at first the fence was wooden and later it was replaced by lace iron one with crosses on pillars and green fir-trees hedge. An alley planted along with evergreen thuja, on sides of which there were equal rows of turfed grave mounds and planted with flowers in summer. The Common Cemetery was kept for Her Majesty’s money and was in charge of The Tsarskoye Selo special evacuation center. It was served by a team of soldiers. Officers and lowers ranks, perished on battle fields and dead in Tsarskoye Selo military hospitals, were buried here. Later it was allowed to bury here the people who served in the Tsarskoye Selo special evacuation center hospitals and was known by their special care about wounded men. By October 1917 in the cemetery there were more then a thousand of individual graves with carved wooden crosses. In the cemetery there was a small wooden church, the design of which, approved by the Empress on 3 July 1915, was developed by the architect S.Yu. Sidorchuk in the Russian northern architecture traditions. Trees, felt by a hurricane in the spring 1914 in the Tsarskoye Selo parks, were used as materials for building. The church was built at the earliest possible time: the laying took place on 18 August, and church was consecrated in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “The Healer of Sorrows” on 4 October 1915 in the presence of the Empress and Grand Duchesses. Hieromonk Dositheus (Razumov), a priest of the 131th evacuation hospital that time, became the first dean of the church. At Easter on 19 April 1916 a service for the commemoration of the soldiers perished in battle fields was performed here. Nicholas II, Alexandra Fiodorovna with the Heir Tsesarevich Alexey and daughters Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia as well as other members of the imperial family- the Queen of Hellenes Olga Konstantinovna, Grand Duchesses Yelizaveta Fiodorovna and Yelizaveta Mavrikiyevna -were in presence at the service. In 1938 the church was closed and demolished, the cemetery was destroyed. In 2008 a granite obelisk was constructed on the former cemetery territory in 2008. It was erected in the commemoration of heroes perished in World War I during 1914-1918. Persons Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Elizaveta Fedorovna, Grand Princess Nicholas II, Emperor Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Princess Sidorchuk S.Y. Tatyana Nikolaevna, Grand Princess

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1916
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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