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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Gedroits, Vera Ignatyevna, princess hidden The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital | |
The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital included two charity establishments: a hospital and alms-house, both supported for the money of the Palace Board since the time of Catherine I ... | | The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital included two charity establishments: a hospital and alms-house, both supported for the money of the Palace Board since the time of Catherine I. The hospital was placed in this place, originally located near Torgovaya (Trade) Square at the entry into Tsarskoye Selo from Moscow Road, according to the order of Alexander I of 23 October 1808. One-storied wooden building of the hospital with the Church of the Consolation of all the Afficted, alms-houses, chemist's shops, gardens for men and women departments, the fence around the hospital complex were built during 1809-1817 to the design of the architect V.I. Geste. On 21 July 1844 Nicholas I approved the design of new stone buildings for the hospital instead of outmoded wooden ones, that was developed by the architect D.Ye. Yefimov. The construction works were being done from 1844 until 1852 under the direction of the architect N.S. Nikitin. Hospital buildings have survived until present time. The main building of the hospital and detached buildings of the alms-house, chemist’s house, dwelling house for hospital workers, wash-house, chapel were surrounded with a fence and garden laid out on the base of the old hospital gardens by the gardener V. Miller. The consecration of the hospital church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Consolation of All Who Sorrow” took place on 28 September 1852. The court surgeon F.F. Zhukovsko-Volynsky 1804-1879) worked as the head physician of the hospital. Considerable works on modernization and re-equipment of the hospital were done from the late 19th century to the early 20th century to the designs of A.F. Vidov, A.R. Bach, S.A. Danini with the participation of doctors A.F. Gaaze, Ye.S. Botkin. The female-surgeon Princess V.I. Gedroits worked here according to the will of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. An outpatients department and admission room were built to the main building in 1908-1914 to the design of architect Danini. The hospital church of the Consolation of all the Afficted was enlarged, the cave-temple of Sts. Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles with separate entrance was placed in the new annex. In 1911-1913 Danini built a pavilion for infectious patients. In this pavilion during World War I there was a department for officers for thirty bunks of the Own Hospital No. 3 which was established for wounded men for personal savings of the empress. The Own hospital department for lower ranks for 200 people occupied the upper floor in the main building of the hospital. Sisters Romanov worked at this hospital until the arrest in February 1917. Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna was a scrub nurse, she assisted to the surgeon V.I. Gedroits and herself did bandaging. Her elder daughters Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolayevna and Tatiana Nikolayevna worked side by side of the mother. Now the N.A. Semashko Town Hospital No. 38 of the Health Protection Committee of Saint Petersburg is placed here.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Bach Alexander Romanovich Catherine I, Empress Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Gedroits, Vera Ignatyevna, princess Hastie Vasily Ivanovich (William) Nicholas I, Emperor Nikitin, N.S. Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Princess Tatyana Nikolaevna, Grand Princess Vidov Alexander Fomich Zhukovsko-Volynsky, F.F.
Addresses Gospitalnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 7
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19 January. In the Alexander Palace Nicholas II received the workers deputation after the incident "Bloody Sunday" on 9 January in Petersburg. 50 000 roubles were assigned for the families of suffered men, this was told during the meeting. ... | | 19 January. In the Alexander Palace Nicholas II received the workers deputation after the incident "Bloody Sunday" on 9 January in Petersburg. 50 000 roubles were assigned for the families of suffered men, this was told during the meeting. . 30 January. The Petersburg Governer received the information about the "unruly conduct of soldiers" in Tsarskoye Selo. They went to a street from the barracks and threatened officers and policemen, speaking the "impertinent words against the Emperor". Social Democratic groups were organized by the lower officials of the 1st Railway Battalion and among the wounded men at the Palace hospital. 1 March. The new Orlov water supply system, that used pipes laid from the Orlov springs to the Orlov water tower and then it used the water supply system of Tsarskoye Selo, began to work. 7-11 March. The pupils unrests took place in the Nicholas Gymnasiun after the current events, many pupils were participants of the street demonstrations. Gymnasium pupils, gathered for the rally, pronounced the resolution "…we, as the children of nation, declare the political strike, and our slogan is - Down with death penalty! Down with military coutrs! Down with martial law!". Pupils unrests took place also in the Trade College and the Mariinskaya Gymnasium. 14 April. In the Alexander Palace the Imperial family met with Princess V.I. Gedroitz, a surgeon, she returned from the front of the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria. Architect S. Danini constructed the house for the prominent pediatrician К.А. Rauhfus at his country estate near the "To my dear comarades Gates" ( the present address of the house is 2 Parkovaya Street). In Nizhny Boulevard, the Empress Maria Children Orphanage in the memory of Nikolai, Yelizaveta and Olga Adamovich (philanthropists) with the Orphan Department of Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolayevich was opened in the building, which was special constructed, according to the design of the technician A.V. Druker. Architect S. Danini constructed the mansion in the Modern style for Count V.V. Gudovich, equerry of the court (its present address is 18 Parkovaya Street ) The city newspaper "Tsarskoye Selo Newspaper" began to published under the editor D.N. Loman, it was published until 29 January 1907 . 28 May. The Nanny School of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna was opened. The ideas of Doctor K.A. Rauchfus, organizer of the Nanny School, were realized by the architect S.A. Danini during the constructing of school. Emperor Nicholas II was present at the opening of the Nanny School . The Nanny School building was used as the children sanatorium until 1941 ( its present address is 7 Krasnoselskoye Road, school no. 409) October. The first collection of poems "Way of Conquistadors" by N.S. Gumilyov, a pupil of the Nicholas Gymnasium, was published. 23 November. The great reception, the Emperor awarded 55 servicemen wounded in the Russo-Japanese War, took place on the military ground of the Catherine Palace. 64 officers, 800 servicemen of lower ranks, 45 holders of Order of St. George were present during this ceremony. Anna Aleksandrovna Vyrubova (nee Taneyeva), a maid of honour of Empress Aleksandra Fiodorovna, settled in the former house of Tepper de Fergusson. Members of the Imperial family and Grigory Rasputin often visited her here. А. Vyrubova lived in this house until 1917 . 1 December. The new city sewerage system and the purification biology station, having the incinerators with electric generators using the hot gas of incinerators, began to operate.
Persons Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Druker Alexander Vasilievich Gedroits, Vera Ignatyevna, princess Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Loman D.N. Nicholas II, Emperor Rasputin Grigory Efimovich Rauchfus Karl Andreevich Vyrubova Anna Alexandrovna
Addresses Krasnoselskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town Parkovaya Street/Pushkin, town Parkovaya Street/Pushkin, town
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4 March. On N.S. Gumilyov's initiative I.F. Annensky was acquainted with the critic S.K. Makovsky and the poet M.A. Voloshin in the flat of I.F. Annensky in Sophia Town ... | | 4 March. On N.S. Gumilyov's initiative I.F. Annensky was acquainted with the critic S.K. Makovsky and the poet M.A. Voloshin in the flat of I.F. Annensky in Sophia Town. Annensky enthusiastically supported Makovsky's idea about creating the literary magazine "Apollon" and accepted the offer to be a member of the magazine editorial staff. In the same year Annensky was acquainted with poets O. Mandelshtam and M. Kuzmin and had the last meeting with A. Blok in Tsarskoye Selo. 30 April. Russian young scouts' campfire was lighted in the Pavlovsk Park. On this day the first in Russia detachment of Tsarskoye Selo scouts was formed on the initiative of Oleg Ivanovich Pantyukhov, Staff-Captain of the First Life Guard His Emperor Majesty Infantry Regiment. The summer. The staging of Schiller's tragedy "Missianskaya nevesta" ("Die Braut von Messina ( The Bride of Messina")) in translation of Grand Duke K. Romanov (K.R.) with his participation and with participation of officers of the Life Guard Izmailovsky Regiment (the society "Izmailovsky dosug" ("The Leisure of the Izmailovsky Regiment Officers")) was performed in the Chinese Theatre. 20 July. The ceremonial laying of the Fiodorovsky Emperor Cathedral took place in the presence of the whole Tsar's family. 30 November. The outstanding Russian poet I.F. Annensky suddenly died as a result of the heart failure on footsteps of the Vitebsk Railway Station. In the same evening Annensky's corpse was delivered from Saint Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo in a special coach. On 4 December Annensky was performed the burial service in the Rozhdestvenskaya Chuch at the gymnasium and then Annensky was burried in the Kazan Cemetery. Vera Ignatyevna Gedroits , the first in Russia woman-surgeon, St. George order-bearer, Princess, poet and writer (her pseudonym is Sergey Gedroits) who got the spoken nickname "George Sand of Tsarskoye Seko", was appointed as an attending physician of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital. The Palace and town telephone exchange worked in Tsarskoye Selo as well as public telephone call-boxes worked at the railway station and in Sophia Town.
Persons Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Blok G.P. Gedroits, Vera Ignatyevna, princess Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Konstantin Konstantinovich, Grand Prince Kuzmin Mikhail Alexeevich Makovsky Sergey Konstantinovich Mandelstam Osip Emilievich Pantyukhov Oleg Ivanovich Voloshin Maximillian Alexandrovich
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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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