The barracks occupies the whole area opposite the Catherine Park and the Admiralty on Parkovaya Street and limited by Kadetsky Boulevard, Krasnoy Zvezdi (Red Star) Street and Ogorodnaya Street. During 1864-1917 building, locating here, occupied by the Fourth Life Guard Rifle Imperial Family Regiment (until 1910 it was a battalion). Soldiers’ barracks of this regiment were placed in two big blocks, built as living buildings in 1783-1785 according to Ch. Cameron’s “ a standard model of a big house” to Sophia Town, the appearance of which is recognized in facades survived until our days. One of buildings was intended for General A.D. Lanskoy and was built by G. Quarenghi on the remade design of Ch. Cameron. After Lanskoy’s death in 1784 his house and grounds were bought by Catherine II from his heirs and got the fame as “Sophia House” of the tsesarevich or the Konstantin Palace because during 1794-1817 the owner of a part of the building (at first 6 windows, then 9 windows from the park side) was Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich. A wing for married lower ranks of the Fourth Rifle Regiment was built in the 1790s as the outbuilding of the Konstantin Palace. The other part of the building was occupied by the Tsarskoye Selo Board, the Forestry Institute and the Engineer department of the Military department. Among owners of the second building in the late 18th century and early 19th century there was the Scottish stonemason Lavrenty Stitman, Sophia Town merchant Kirila Lomakin, the collegiate assessor and cavalier Platon Sokolov, the Gzhatsk merchant Yemelyan Cheblokov, Sophia Town merchant Afanasy Yevseyev, English merchant Yegor Eno.
In 1813-1819 both buildings were adapted for the Noble Lyceum boarding school according to the design of the architect V.P. Stasov. In 1824-1829 detached buildings of the boarding school, which was separated by Admiralty Street, were rebuilt again to the design of V.P. Stasov and connected with an one-storied gallery.
In 1831 the Alexander Cadet Corps for juvenile children was placed here. Later only connective block was changed in the building appearance, it was overbuilt with the second floor in 1838-1841 to the design of the architect V.V. Kokorev. During 1859-1863 the Officer Rifle School was temporarily placed here, afterwards soldiers’ barracks of the Fourth Life Guard Rifle Imperial Family Regiment was placed in the building.
In the 1910s, in connection with the increase in the number of riflemen up to four-battalion regiment, an adjoining plot with buildings of the Fifth and Sixth squadrons of the Life Guard Hussar His Emperor Majesty Regiment were joined to the barracks of the imperial riflemen (1850-1857, the 1880s, the buildings were rebuilt for soldiers-riflemen in the 1910s), also new barracks were built. Manezhny Lane, separated barrack complexes, was destroyed at the same time. The auxiliary squadron wings of the Hussar Regiment, mainly built in 1850-1857, were rebuilt for riflemen: barracks of the seventh reserve squadron, barracks and cook-houses of trumpet-player team, a school for soldiers’ children, a wing of married lower ranks, storerooms. Street facades of stable and horse hospital of the Hussar Regiment, rebuilt in the 1910 by the architect V.I. Yakovlev for needs of the Fourth Rifle Regiment, were decorated with many-column porticos in the spirit of the Neo-classicism architecture. Neo-classicism forms and large-scale dimensions were used for decoration of facades of the Officers’ Assembly building with flats for officers of the Fourth Rifle Regiment built in 1913-1914 by the architect V.I. Yakovlev. Also the Battalion building (1912-1914) in Kadetsky Boulevard and the Soldiers’ School (1911-1915) were built in the heart of the barrack complex by V.I. Yakovlev jointly with the architect Ye.O. Konstanovich.
After 1917 units of the Red Army were placed here, from 1948 the High Navy Engineering Colledge named after V.I. Lenin, reorganized in the Navy Engineering Institute in 1999, has been placed here. Cameron Charles
Catherine II, Empress
Kokorev, Vasily Vasilyevich
Konstantin Pavlovich, Grand Prince
Konstantinovich, Yevstafy Iosifovich
Lanskoy Alexander Dmitrievich
Quarenghi Giacomo
Stasov Vasily Petrovich
Yakovlev Vsevolod Ivanovich
Kadetsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town
Krasnaya Zvezda Street/Pushkin, town
Ogorodnaya Street/Pushkin, town
Parkovaya Street/Pushkin, town

QUARENGHI Giacomo (1744-1817), architect, representative of Neoclassicism. Native of Italy. From 1761 (according to the other data sources, from 1763) studied painting and architecture in Rome. At the end of 1779, he came to St. Petersburg and became a court architect. In 1814, he was became a member of the Russian nobility. The first significant works of Quarenghi was the English Palace in Peterhof (1781-1794, destroyed in 1942) a classical monumental building with a Corinthian portico. In Tsarskoye Selo, Quarenghi built A.D. Lanskoy mausoleum (Kazan Church, 1785-90), Kitchen Ruins, Concert Hall (1784-86) and Alexandrovsky Palace (1792-96) with a walk-through colonnade, connecting it with the park. Among the buildings created by Quarenghi in St. Petersburg are public buildings: Academy of Sciences, Collegium of Foreign Affairs, the Stock Exchange building (reconstructed by J.F. Thomas de Thomon), the Assignation Bank, the Hermitage Theatre; buildings of beneficent and educational organizations: the Smolny Institute and the Catherine Institute, St. Mary's Hospital; churches: the English Church, the Maltese Chapel; town houses of counts A.A. Bezborodko, F.I. Groten, I.F. Vietinghof. The wooden Narva Triumphal Gate is dedicated to the victory over France. Quarenghi's style is characterised by emphasized continuous laconism, simplicity of space-planning, consummate usage of the order system (the Raphael Loggia, see the Hermitage, Winter Palace Halls). He was a perfect draftsman and left many drawings of Russian architectural monuments. In 1780-1783, he lived at 15 Nevsky Prospect, in 1809-17, at 32 Dvortsovaya Embankment (memorial plaque). He was buried in Volkovskoe Lutheran Cemetery; in 1967 his ashes were transferred to the Necropolis of the 18th century. As of 1923, a side street near Smolny Cathedral bears the name of Quarenghi. The monument to Quarenghi is standing in front of the Assignation Bank (1967, sculptor L.K. Lazarev, architect M.N. Meysel).

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V. V. Antonov.

25 June. A.D. Lanskoi, a favourite of Catherine II, died in Tsarskoye Selo. In 1785 the architector G. Quarenghi built the mausoleum over Lanskoy's grave. Later it was consecrated as the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The funeral of A.D. Lanskoi was at the new place at the outskirts of Sophia Town and then the Kazan Cemetery was founded at this place.

Four year city college was founded. From 1911 the college was placed in its' own building, that was constructed to the design by the civil engineer L.P. Shishko in Nizhny Boulevard (its present address is 40 Oranzhereynaya Street )

The Sophia Post Yard was founded near the Orlov Gates.
The Babolov Palace was constructed and the Babolov Park was laid out to the design by V.I. Neyelov. Lanskoy Alexander Dmitrievich
Neelov Vasily Ivanovich
Quarenghi Giacomo
Shishko Lev Petrovich
Oranzhereinaya Street/Pushkin, town