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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 12 hidden | | |
Four Cavaliers’ houses were built in 1752-1753 to the design of S.I. Chevakinsky according to Empress Elizabeth’s order given in 1748 about building dwelling houses in Sadovaya Street for arriving “cavaliers” ... | | Four Cavaliers’ houses were built in 1752-1753 to the design of S.I. Chevakinsky according to Empress Elizabeth’s order given in 1748 about building dwelling houses in Sadovaya Street for arriving “cavaliers”. Originally all one-storied houses with mezzanines were equal, built in the Baroque style, they were joined with fences from Sadovaya Street and painted in the colour of the same with facades of the Catherine Palace. In 1784 I.V. Neyelov enlarged mezzanines, transformed them in the low second floor. In 1817 small front gardens were laid out in front of houses. The marshal’s house (6 Sadovaya Street) was rebuilt and doubled, in the middle of the 19th century the Tsarskoye Selo superintendent of Palace buildings lived here. The Study house (10 Sadovaya Street) was occupied by the office of the Governor of Tsarskoye Selo, Peterhof and Gatchina over a some period in the early 19th century, in the middle of the 19th century noncommissioned - Masters of the Horse lived here. The field-doctor’s house (12 Sadovaya Street) was used for living the historian N.M. Karamzin in 1817 according to Alexander I’s order. Afterwards a campaign noncommissioned - Master of the Horse lived here.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich Elizaveta Alexeevna, Empress Karamzin Nikolay Mikhailovich Neelov Ilya Vasilievich
Addresses Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 6 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 10 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 12
| | | | hidden Karamzin N.M., (1766-1826), historian, writer | |
KARAMZIN Nikolay Mikhailovich (1766-1826, St. Petersburg), writer, critic, historian, honorary member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1818). He studied in a Moscow Boarding School. In 1782-84 he served with the Guards in St. Petersburg ... | | KARAMZIN Nikolay Mikhailovich (1766-1826, St. Petersburg), writer, critic, historian, honorary member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1818). He studied in a Moscow Boarding School. In 1782-84 he served with the Guards in St. Petersburg. After retiring he travelled in Europe (1789-90), and then lived mainly in Moscow. He was the founder of Russian sentimentalism. He was the author of Letters of a Russian Traveller, stories: Poor Lisa, Natalya the Boyar's Daughter, Marpha the Governor's Wife, etc., verses, essays, critique, translations. He played an important role in the development of Russian standard language, establishment of new trends in Russian literature, had an influence on V.A. Zhukovsky, K.N. Batyushkov, A.S.Pushkin. Karamzin's followers and associated formed a friends literature society, Arzamas, while their adversaries, archaists, headed by A.S. Shishkov - Conversations for Lovers of the Russian Word literature society. In 1803 he was appointed a historiographer by Emperor Alexander I and started working on his main work the History of the Russian State, the publication of which (vol. 1-12, 1816-29) was a milestone in the development of Russian science and self awareness. Karamzin was a firm believer in enlightened monarchy, in the early 1810s he argued against M.M. Spiransky's reforms. In 1816 he moved with his family to Tsarskoe Selo, where he was given one of the houses in Chinese Village. Pushkin visited him there as a lyceum pupil. While staying in St. Petersburg in 1816-18 Karamzin lived in E.F. Muravyeva's House (25 Fontanka River Embankment), he spent summer months in Tsarskoe Selo in the Kavalersky Block at 12 Sadovaya Street (1752-53, architect S.I. Chevakinsky; rebuilt in 1784, architect I.V. Neelov). The last Petersburg residence of Karamzin was Mizhuev's House (26 Fontanka River Embankment). Karamzin was a witness of the Decembrist Uprising on 14 December 1825 at Senatskaya Square. Karamzin criticised its participants and organisers for heedlessness, though he endured their fate as a personal tragedy (many of the conspirators were close acquaintances). On the day of the uprising Karamzin caught a cold, which resulted in a severe illness, the latter being fatal for Karamzin. He was buried at the Necropolis of Artists. References: Эйдельман Н. Я. Последний летописец. М., 1983; Лотман Ю. М. Сотворение Карамзина. М., 1998; Шмидт С. О. Николай Михайлович Карамзин (1766-1826) // Портреты историков: Время и судьбы: В 2 т. М.; Иерусалим, 2000. Т. 1. С. 25-37. N. L. Korsakova.
| | | | hidden Tsarskoe Selo, palace and park ensemble | |
TSARSKOE SELO (Pushkin town), a monument of town-planning and a palace and park ensemble dating from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. The core of the ensemble is the estate of Empress Catherine I Sarskaya Myza (founded in 1710) ... | | TSARSKOE SELO (Pushkin town), a monument of town-planning and a palace and park ensemble dating from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. The core of the ensemble is the estate of Empress Catherine I Sarskaya Myza (founded in 1710). To the north of the Catherine Palace, is the Church of the Holy Sign (1734-46, architects M.Y. Blank, M.G. Zemtsov). In 1752-53, the ensemble of "cavaliers' houses" (4, 6, 10, 12 Sadovaya Street; architect S.I. Chevakinsky) was developed along the north fence of the Catherine Park and Lower Stables (building 18, 20; 1756-62, architects F. Rastrelli, Chevakinsky), Hothouses (building 14; 1750s, architect Rastrelli; reconstructed in 1820-28 by architect V.P. Stasov) and the so-called "stables of the horses on duty" (building 8; 1822-24, architect Stasov) were adjoined to the ensemble. In the middle of the 18th century, the development of the territory continued along Litseisky Lane (building 5 - choristers' wing, 1752-53) and Srednaya Street (building 1 and 3 - houses of the Palace Administration, 1744) - all designed by Chevakinsky. The formation of the palace settlement was interrupted in 1783, when the place for the new town Sofia was chosen to the south-east of the Catherine Park; its plan (architect C. Cameron) was to become a model for all major provincial towns of the Russian Empire. But the project was not implemented to the full and in 1808 the town was abolished (the Holy Wisdom Cathedral and Kazanskoe Cemetery have preserved); later, the territory was built up with quarters and barracks where the Life Guard Hussar Regiment, Riflemen Regiment, Cuirassier Regiment and Artillery School were quartered. The planning of Tsarskoe Selo features regular lay-out formed by perpendicular streets. The centre is the rectangular Sobornaya Square (1808, architect V.I. Hastie) with facades of the Municipal Government and Fire Department (28, 32 Leontyevskaya Street; 1821, architects V.I. Hastie, V.P. Stasov) and Gostiny dvor (25 Moskovskaya Street; 1863-66, architect N.S. Nikitin). St. Catherine's Cathedral (1835-40, architect K.A. Ton) was demolished in 1939. Until the early 20th century, the development was confined to Bulvarnaya Street (today Oktyabrsky Boulevard). The considerable part of Tsarskoe Selo is occupied with the Catherine Park, Alexander Park, Babolovsky Park, Separate Park with Colonists' Pond (along Pavlovskoe Freeway, laid out in 1824-25, architect A.A. Menelas; 1839-47, masters F.F. Lyamin, I.F. Piper; partially replanned in the mid-19th century by architect A.F. Vidov and in the early 20 century by architect S.A. Danini), and Lyceum Garden (1819, architect A.A. Menelas, replanned in 1849, architect D.E. Efimov) with the monument to Alexander Pushkin (1900, sculptor R.P. Bach), the summer residence of M.V. Kochubey (Spare, or Vladimirsky Palace) at 22 Sadovaya Street (1817-18, architect Stasov); the summer residence of Z.I. Yusupova (10-12 Pavlovskoe Freeway; 1856-59, architect I.A. Monighetti), the summer residence of Grand Prince Boris Vladimirovich (11 Moskovskoe Freeway; 1896-97, Maple English firm; 1899, architect A.I. von Gogen). In the early 20th century, in the north of Tsarskoe Selo (Akademichesky Avenue) an ensemble was created that included Feodorovsky Settlement; the Imperial garages (1906-07, architect S.A. Danini, 1913-15, architect A.K. Minyaev); quarters of His Imperial Majesty Escort (1916, architect V.N. Maximov); Tsar's Pavilion of the railway station (1912, architect V.A. Pokrovsky). During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, the ensemble of Tsarskoe Selo suffered severe damage. In the course of post-war restoration work, main constituents and focuses of pre-revolutionary architecture have been preserved. References: Ласточкин С. Я., Рубежанский Ю. Ф. Царское Село - резиденция российских монархов: Архит. и воен.-ист. очерк. 2-е изд., доп. и перераб. СПб., 2000. Y. M. Piryutko.
Persons Blank Ivan (Jogann)Yakovlevich Cameron Charles Catherine I, Empress Chevakinsky Savva Ivanovich Rastrelli Francesco de Stasov Vasily Petrovich Zemtsov Mikhail Grigorievich
Addresses Akademichesky Avenue/Pushkin, town Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 32 Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 28 Litseisky Lane/Pushkin, town, house 5 Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 25 Moskovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 11 Oktyabrsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town Pavlovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town Pavlovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 10 Pavlovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 12 Pushkin, town Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 22 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 6 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 4 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 18 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 14 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 12 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 8 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 20 Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 10 Srednaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 3 Srednaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 1
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