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172: 44: 280:"Tsarskoe Selo was a magnificent symbol, a supreme gesture, of the Russian autocracy. At the edge of the great St. Petersburg plain, fifteen miles south of the capital, a succession of Russian tsars and empresses had created an isolated, miniature world, as artificial and fantastic as a precisely ordered mechanical toy. Inside the park, monuments, obelisks and triumphal arches studded eight hundred acres of velvet green lawn. An artificial lake, big enough for small sailboats, could be emptied and filled like a bathtub. At one end of the lake stood a pink Turkish bath; not far off, a dazzling red-and-gold Chinese pagoda crowned an artificial hillock." The two palaces stood five hundred yards apart in the Imperial Park. "Outside the palace gates, Tsarskoe Selo, was an elegant provincial town..." The town included "The mansions of the aristocracy, lining the wide tree-shaded boulevard which led from the railway station to the gates of the Imperial Park..." 493: 1000: 508: 373: 417: 441: 575: 361: 306: 481: 429: 393: 563: 551: 457: 539: 527: 405: 76: 469: 224:, a Finnish village, Saari-mois, stood on the site now occupied by the town, and its Russified name Sarskaya was changed into Tsarskoye when Peter presented it to his wife Catherine. It was especially embellished by the tsaritsa Elizabeth. Under Catherine II., a town, Sophia, was built close by, but its inhabitants were transferred to Tsarskoye Selo under Alexander I. The railway connecting the town with St Petersburg was the first (1838) to be constructed in Russia. 658: 297:(Soviet elites). Their stores were better stocked, although they were still affected by Soviet-era shortages. The buildings in the neighborhoods were better designed, constructed and maintained. For instance, one such neighborhood, west of Moscow, contained less industry and more parks than any other neighborhood. 171: 43: 440: 372: 77: 266: 902: 114: 817: 1016: 1094: 507: 574: 360: 1108: 895: 1397: 1150: 1432: 428: 492: 1234: 1192: 888: 1623: 999: 1029: 980: 673: 198:, first became a Russian royal/imperial residence in the early 18th century as an estate of the Empress-consort Catherine (later Empress-regnant as 1185: 1059: 1069: 1039: 562: 416: 1199: 550: 456: 1022: 763:
The stores here were better stocked, even though they were affected by the shortages. The buildings were better designed and constructed.
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Under the Soviets the name 'the Tsars' Village' began attaching itself to blocks and small neighborhoods that housed the Soviet elites.
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The Royal Forestry School, perhaps the first such school in Russia, was founded in Tsarskoye Selo in 1803. It was moved to
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until 13 August 1917. People built homes in the town where they also came to live when the court was in the country.
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Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin town, historical facts of the city, map, local weather, directions from St. Petersburg
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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and visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the center of
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The town bore the name Tsarskoye Selo until 1918. The new Bolshevik government of
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Grotto pavilion in Catherine Park of Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Jubilee exhibition for the 200th anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo, 1911
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Tsarskoye Selo in 1910 – a guide to the Palaces, Park and Town
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and his family were held there by revolutionary forces under
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Catherine Palace at the main entrance, September 9, 1911.
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Bernard DeCou's colored photos of Tsarskoye Selo, c. 1931
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Last Days at Tsarskoye Selo by Count Paul Beckendorff
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Farm outbuilding with a tower in Alexander Park, 1910
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For the town in which Tsarskoye Selo is located, see
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St. Petersburg Encyclopedia. Accessed: May 6, 2012.
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Index

Detskoye Selo
Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
Tsarskoye Selo railway station

Catherine Palace
Russian
[ˈtsarskəjesʲɪˈlo]

imperial family
Saint Petersburg
town of Pushkin
World Heritage Site
Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Soviet Russia
Russian
lit.
Stalin
Russian
the famous Russian poet and writer

Alexander Palace
corps de logis
cour d'honneur
Swedish Ingria
Catherine I
Catherine Palace
Peter the Great
Neva
Alexander Palace
Catherine the Great

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