A short walk around the city of Pushkin. Tsarskoe Selo old photos Photos of the streets of Tsarskoe Selo in Soviet times
- palace and park ensemble in the city of Pushkin. Pushkin is a city within the Pushkinsky district. It was founded in 1710 as the imperial country residence of Tsarskoye Selo. Since 1808 it began to be considered a city. Currently included in the list of monuments protected by UNESCO.
The former royal residence with a palace, parks, numerous buildings, monuments, and sculptures is currently a museum-reserve that is open to visitors. Tsarskoye Selo is one of the most popular routes for tourists from all over the world who come to Russia on vacation. Tsarskoe Selo has historical and architectural artistic value. It consists of the Great Catherine Palace, which, among other things, houses the famous Amber Room, Catherine Park and Alexander Park. The entire complex covers an area of 107 hectares. On the territory of the parks there is large number historical sights and simply beautiful and incredible scenic spots. Visit Tsarskoe Selo and spend your day off walking through the most beautiful places where once only high-ranking persons could walk, breathe fresh air, get acquainted with part of history, feed squirrels and ducks, sit in a shady grove, perhaps the best choice on a warm sunny day .
Upper Bath (Their Highnesses Soap House, built 1777-1779)
Catherine Palace
Hermitage Alley
Cameron Gallery
Cameron Gallery. Built in 1784 for walks and philosophical conversations. The upper tier is decorated with bronze busts of the idols of Catherine II.
Evening hall. Construction 1796-1810. Used as a concert hall.
The kitchen is a ruin. Built by G. Quarenghi in the 1780s.
Creaky gazebo. Built in 1778-1786. It got its name from the weather vane, which creaks a lot when rotating in the wind.
Tower ruin. Built in 1771. Symbol of the fall of the Ottoman Porte. The tower resembles the ruins of a fortress, from the top platform of which there is a stunning view of the surrounding landscape.
Marble Bridge. Colonnade on a granite base with stairs on the sides. Built in 1774.
Pyramid. Erected in 1782-83. Catherine II’s favorite dogs, Tom Anderson, Zemira and Duchess, are buried at the foot of the pyramid.
Turkish bath. Built in 1828-29.
Big lake in Catherine Park.
The city of Pushkin is located in the south, and is part of St. Petersburg. About 100,000 people live in Pushkin. The city is included in the list of monuments protected by UNESCO.
Pushkin was founded in 1710 as the imperial country residence of Tsarskoe Selo.
On February 10, 1937, in connection with the 100th anniversary of the poet’s death, the USSR Central Executive Committee issued a decree renaming the city to the city of Pushkin. However, there is a social movement in the city advocating the return historical name Tsarskoye Selo.
01. The distance from the center of St. Petersburg to Pushkin is just over 20 kilometers, and we easily covered this distance by car.
02. We pass the Moscow Triumphal Gate.
03. And some interesting buildings along the avenue.
04. Small tunnel.
Here we are in Pushkin. The main attraction of the city is the Tsarskoe Selo museum-reserve.
05. The Alexander Palace was built in 1792-1796 by order of Empress Catherine II as a gift for the wedding of her grandson, Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich (future Emperor Alexander I).
06. The palace was designed by the famous Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi.
The Alexander Park is adjacent to the palace. It covers an area of 120 hectares. Consists of a regular part ( New garden, 1740s, author of the project N. Girard) and the Landscape Park (1790s) with three ponds and mounds. Unfortunately, most of the architectural monuments located in the park are in critical condition; they continue to collapse every day.
07. Children's House, this small blue pavilion is located on an island in the center of the Children's Pond, created in 1817 by the architect A. Menelas. The house was built for the children of Emperor Nicholas I to play. People reached the island by small ferry, and later by rowing boat.
08. Dragon Bridge. Its architecture reflected the fascination with China that was characteristic of Russia at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The bridge is decorated with four expressive figures of winged dragons mounted on granite pedestals.
09. Initially, during the construction of the bridge during the reign of Empress Catherine II, the figures were made of limestone; the current cast iron dragons were cast in 1860.
10. Great Chinese Bridge. Built in 1785 according to the design of the architect Charles Cameron. The bridge is made of pink granite, the parapet is designed in the form of large stone vases with hanging intertwined branches of red corals (forged from iron).
11. Such a cute little face decorates the bridge from below.
12. The main entrance of the Catherine Palace. Even in winter there are crowds of tourists here.
13. We decided not to crowd, and went to the south side. On the left you can see a building that once belonged to the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. It was here that A.S. studied. Pushkin.
14. The Great Catherine Palace was founded in 1717 under the leadership of the German architect Johann Friedrich Braunstein as the summer residence of Empress Catherine I.
15. In 1743, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, who had just ascended the throne, instructed Russian architects Mikhail Zemtsov and Andrei Vasilyevich Kvasov to expand and improve the palace. It was under Empress Elizabeth Petrovna that the palace acquired its current appearance and style.
16. In May 1752, she commissioned the architect Rastrelli to rebuild the palace again, because she considered it too old-fashioned and small. After dismantling, a grandiose reconstruction and construction work that lasted four years, a modern palace appeared, made in the Russian Baroque style.
18. Catherine Park covers an area of 107 hectares. It consists of a regular Old Garden and a landscaped English Garden, separated by a Big Pond.
19. The regular park was laid out in the 1720s by the Dutch masters of gardening J. Roosen and I. Vocht on three ledges in front of the imperial palace.
23. Pavilion “Grotto”.
25. The Cameron Gallery was designed by Empress Catherine II for walking. Architect - C. Cameron. The Cameron Gallery is located on the slope of a hill, on the border of the regular and landscape parts of Catherine Park.
26. Big pond.
27. The cutting of the spruce had to be postponed.
It was very cold that day, so, unfortunately, we didn’t manage to see even half of the park’s attractions. Of course, it is better to visit this place in the warm season.
28. The finale of this day - shopping mall Gallery.
I have been to the city of Pushkin several times. Usually she came there only for a short time, when she went on excursions to palaces. In 2012, Elena Astashkevich invited me to her place, and I enthusiastically walked, studied and discovered a magnificent city, which, as it turned out, has many interesting architectural monuments.
Let's walk along several streets of Pushkin and admire the old houses, each of which has a long interesting history.
Pushkin (until 1918 - Tsarskoe Selo, from 1918 to 1937 - Detskoe Selo) is a city within the Pushkinsky district of the federal city of St. Petersburg and its intra-city municipal formation. A large tourist, scientific, educational and military-industrial center. Included in the list of monuments protected by UNESCO, as part of the object “Historical Center of St. Petersburg and Related Complexes of Monuments.”
At the beginning of 2010, the population of the city of Pushkin was 99,388 people, according to the 2010 population census (as of October 14) - 92,889 people.
The St. Petersburg - Vitebsk railway line passes through the city, and the Tsarskoye Selo railway station and stopping point 21st km. Distance between Vitebsky railway station in St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo is 23 km. The main post offices of St. Petersburg and Pushkin are located at a distance of 24 kilometers in a straight line. The city is located within the Prinevskaya lowland.
Pushkin was founded in 1710 as the imperial country residence of Tsarskoe Selo, a city since 1808. The city is home to the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve, a monument to urban planning art and a palace and park ensemble of the 18th - early 20th centuries. The reserve includes the Catherine Park with the Catherine Palace and other buildings (from Wikipedia).
Lyceum and Catherine Palace from Palace Street
And here it is Lyceum Garden, which is adjacent to the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and the Znamenskaya Church. In the center is a monument to A.S. Pushkin by R.R. Bach.
Lyceum Garden
Information about the Lyceum Garden
Monument to Pushkin in the Lyceum Garden
Nearby is an ancient church whose melodic ringing of bells makes you mentally transport yourself to the brilliant 18th century.
Znamenskaya Church
Interior decoration of the Church of the Sign
Palace (Resurrection) Church
The ancient Gostiny Dvor, built in 1866, has been preserved. And today trade is in full swing here, with fashionable shops located here.
Gostiny Dvor
On the square nearby is the Cathedral of St. Catherine the Great Martyr, recreated in 2007-2010. And the first cathedral on this site was founded back in 1835; construction was carried out under the leadership of the famous architect K.A. Ton. On June 10, 1939, the temple was blown up.
Cathedral of St. Catherine the Great Martyr
Gostiny Dvor
At the corner of Moskovskaya and Konyushennaya streets stands the chapel of the Holy Blessed Prince Igor of Chernigov. During the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis carried out mass executions at this place.
Chapel of the Holy Blessed Prince Igor of Chernigov
Another famous monument is the fence of the Catherine Palace and the cast-iron triumphal ones, erected according to the design of the architect V.P. Stasov in 1817 in just 92 days.
Gate "To my dear colleagues"
Gate "To my dear colleagues"
Opposite the triumphal gate is the Reserve Palace, built in 1817-1824 as a country palace of Count V.P. Kochubey (prince from 1831) and his wife, state lady M.V. Kochubey. In 1835, the palace was purchased by the treasury for Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, and in 1859 it became officially known as the Tsarskoye Selo Reserve Palace. Since 2010, the Wedding Palace has been located here.
Dacha Kochubey (Reserve Palace)
Store of the Guards Economic Society
Bagration's estate
At the intersection of Sofiysky Boulevard and Moskovsky Prospekt you can see the Moscow Gate. Their other name - Friedenthal - refers to the colony of German settlers "Friedenthal", which in former times was located behind them. The first wooden booths with barriers were built here by order of Emperor Paul I in 1797. In 1830-1831 they were replaced by stone gates in the Empire style.
City of Pushkin (St. Petersburg)
Moscow (Friedenthal) Gate
On Naberezhnaya Street, on the shore of the Kupalny Pond, you can see another monument - the building of the Bank Notes Factory, built in 1785. Previously, the Petrovskaya Mill was located here. In former times it was a secret facility.
Imperial Nikolaev Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium
Sadovaya street
Tsarskoe Selo (the city of Pushkin) is incredibly beautiful. Here you can spend more than one day, leisurely strolling along the ancient quiet streets, looking at the palaces and dachas of the most brilliant families Russian Empire. We saw only a small piece of this wonderful city. I hope you liked it.
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Tsarskoe Selo is located in the city of Pushkin near St. Petersburg. It's popular today tourist place, where tourists come every day from almost all countries of the world. The well-maintained park, which is famous not only for its stunning views, but also for its historical sights, is perfect for spending time or an exciting excursion. is amazing beautiful place, which is definitely worth a visit. Nowadays, anyone can visit the parks and the palace if they decide to spend time on a trip to Pushkin, but at the time when Russia was ruled by the royal family, entry here was strictly prohibited. Tsarskoe Selo was the royal summer residence for several centuries. Emperors and empresses lived here, rested, and held military reviews and received high-ranking guests.
Here you can see a selection ancient photographs of Tsarskoe Selo. At the dawn of the art of photography, photographers simply could not pass by the picturesque places of Tsarskoye Selo. Both then and now there is something to look at and something to photograph. It is worth noting that looking at old photographs of these places, you understand that practically nothing has changed here over several decades, except in our time, on a good sunny day, crowds of diverse people roam here, excursions take place, and photographers sparkle with flashbulbs from behind every tree . Perhaps the complete preservation of its original appearance is the magical appeal of Tsarskoye Selo, where anyone can see the royal residence almost exactly the same as the imperial family itself saw it.
Big lake
Grand Palace
Big whim
Gate - TO MY DEAR CO-WORKERS
Gatchina (Oryol) Gate
Catherine Park
Cameron Gallery
Cameron Gallery
Chinese gazebo
Marble bridge
Attractions
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Tsarskoe Selo is a whole museum complex, which includes a palace and park ensemble of the 18th and 19th centuries. Three beautiful parks, a luxurious royal residence and several pavilions in a variety of architectural styles - all filled with the exquisite charm of a bygone era. And Tsarskoe Selo is the former name of the city of Pushkin, which also has something to see and where to take a walk. We offer you 10 best places, which are a must-see in Tsarskoe Selo.
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The Catherine Palace is a grandiose structure in the Russian Baroque style. Once upon a time, 100 kilograms of red gold were spent on gilding its façade!
The great hall of the palace and the “golden enfilade” of the state rooms amaze with the luxury of decoration. You cannot ignore the world-famous Amber Room, revived by the work of the best restorers in Russia. Magical interiors and rare objects of applied art convey the spirit of the Elizabethan and Catherine eras. The palace exposition tells about the work of outstanding architects and artists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Catherine Palace is not as big as it seems when you look at it from the outside; you can walk through it with a guided tour in about 40 minutes. But it’s better not to rush, arm yourself with an audio guide, a guidebook and your own imagination. Just imagine how the fashionable Empress Elizabeth walked through these rooms, in whose wardrobe there were 15 thousand dresses! And how Catherine the Great looked sternly at the elegant curlicues of the local decor, calling this palace “whipped cream.”
An entrance ticket to the palace costs 500 rubles for adult citizens of the Russian Federation. It can be purchased by presenting entrance ticket(120 rubles) to Catherine Park.
The museum is open from 10.00 to 18.00. Closed: Tuesday and last Monday of every month.
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An integral part of the Tsarskoye Selo imperial residence are the parks, first of all, the two main ones - Catherine and Alexandrovsky, which received these names from the palaces located in them.
Catherine Park consists of two parts: the regular Old Garden and the landscaped English Park. According to legend, the Old (Dutch) Garden was founded by Peter I himself. In any case, it was the Dutch masters Roosen and Vocht who planned the garden at the beginning of 1720. However, many outstanding architects showed themselves here: for example, the famous Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli built the Hermitage and Grotto pavilions in the park, as well as the Slide Hill.
On the territory of the Catherine Park there are dozens of architectural structures: from majestic palaces and marble monuments to numerous pavilions, bridges, and exotic buildings that give the park a unique character. All these objects are worthy of close attention. It will take a whole, or even several days, to get acquainted with the riches of Catherine Park. But if you only have an hour or two at your disposal, be sure to at least take a look at the Agate Rooms.
There are a lot of excursions around Catherine Park, including walks in electric cars and horse-drawn carriages.
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Alexander Park, with an area of about 200 hectares, adjoins the Great Tsarskoye Selo (Catherine) Palace from the side of the parade ground (courtyard). Main entrance located opposite the Catherine Palace. You can also enter the park through the gate located at the Alexander Palace, or along the road passing through the Grand Caprice.
Alexander Park is divided into regular (New Garden) and landscape parts. Both are masterpieces of park art.
One of the best examples of classicism in world architecture is the Alexander Palace. It was built according to the design of the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi. Unfortunately, it is impossible to get inside the building now, because the interiors are under restoration until 2018. However, nothing prevents you from admiring the palace from the outside.
Alexander Park is open 24 hours a day. Entrance is free. Paid excursions on electric vehicles and horses are available.
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It was here that young Pushkin was brought up from 1811 to 1817; here he found devoted friends who remained faithful to the Lyceum brotherhood until the end of his days. Nowadays, on the premises of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum there is a museum - one of four branches of the All-Russian Museum of A.S. Pushkin.
The museum recreates the environment in which the first graduating lyceum students lived and studied. Based on archival materials, the Great Hall, Newspaper Room, Library, classrooms, and students' bedrooms were restored.
The interiors convey the special atmosphere of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, which many outstanding graduates of this Lyceum spoke of with great warmth. educational institution. Among them, in addition to A.S. himself. Pushkin, diplomat A.M. Gorchakov, poets A.A. Delvig and V.K. Kuchelbecker, admiral, historiographer of the Russian fleet F.F. Matyushkin, Decembrist I.I. Pushchin.
You can buy a ticket to the museum for 200 or 120 rubles. In the first case, you can walk through all the premises of the lyceum with a guide. With a ticket for 120 rubles, you can familiarize yourself with the exhibition and take a walk in the small lyceum garden.
The museum is open from 10.30 to 18.00. The ticket office closes at 17.00.
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Another place directly connected with the name of the great Russian poet is the dacha of A.S. Pushkin. Here, in a one-story wooden building, which has largely preserved its original architectural appearance, there is also a museum.
Pushkin wanted to get a dacha in 1831. The poet rented eight rooms in a house that belonged to A.K. Kitaeva, where he lived with his young wife for eight months.
The interiors of the dacha were recreated according to the memories of contemporaries. On the mezzanine of the house there is the poet’s office, in which “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “Onegin’s Letter to Tatyana” and many other works were written. A special section of the exhibition is dedicated to Karamzin and Zhukovsky, who were here: in Tsarskoe Selo they quite often visited their student and pupil.
The house is very cozy and beautiful in its own way. Walking through the rooms allows you to touch the history of Russian culture.
The museum is open from 10.30 to 18.00. The ticket office closes at 17.00. Days off are Monday and Tuesday.
Tickets cost 50 rubles or 100 rubles if you want to be given a tour.
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The Sovereign's Military Chamber is not only a rare monument of neo-Russian style architecture, but also the only museum of the First World War in Russia.
The building itself, built in 1914, is a rather complex complex of bizarre structures. Novgorod and Pskov buildings of the 14th-16th centuries were taken as a model. As a result, the War Chamber took the shape of an irregular polygon with a courtyard.
It is interesting that the War Chamber was originally going to house a museum, but not of the First World War, but of the history of Russian troops. However, after the start of the war with Germany in 1914, Nicholas II ordered the construction of a museum of the current war, and the main exhibits, according to the emperor’s plan, were to be portraits of the Knights of St. George. During Soviet times, the museum was closed. It was restored only in 2014. Now the chamber houses a permanent exhibition “Russia in the Great War”.
You can visit the Military Chamber from 10.00 to 18.00, every day except Wednesday and the last Thursday of the month. Ticket price for adult visitors is 300 rubles.
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In 2016, the Arsenal pavilion opened in Alexander Park, where the exhibition “Tsarskoye Selo Arsenal. Imperial collection of weapons." Specialists from the State Hermitage helped assemble this unique collection.
The Arsenal Pavilion was built in 1834, according to the design of the Scottish architect Adam Menelas. The building in the neo-Gothic style is hidden in the depths of Alexander Park and is an architectural fantasy on the theme of ancient castles.
The central room of the pavilion is the octagonal Hall of Knights. Here in the 19th century, the best part of the collection of weapons that belonged to Nicholas I was located. Tickets were issued to view it, that is, in fact, “Arsenal” became the first public weapons museum in Russia.
For more than seventy years, Arsenal stood in a dilapidated state. But now there is a very rich exhibition here. In addition to items from its own collection, the museum acquired at auctions valuable items of European weapons and equipment of the 16th–17th centuries, including armor, helmets, halberds, and swords.
Arsenal is open every day except Mondays from 10.00 to 18.00. Ticket price is 250 rubles.
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Fedorovsky town is a complex of residential and utility buildings in the neo-Russian style, reminiscent of a settlement within the fortress walls. The complex was built from 1913 to 1918. The Tsar's Palace in the village of Kolomenskoye served as a model. The town was created for the residence of clergy and military personnel. It was conceived as a suburb and courtyard, modeled on ancient monastic or boyar estates, which consisted of several chambers and towers surrounded by a fence. In some places, the fortress wall was, in addition to decorative, also functional in nature, as it served as a transition between buildings.
The clergy house, the refectory, the Imperial pavilion, the War Chamber and the barracks of the imperial convoy, the officer and soldier's hospitals, the chancellery building, outbuildings - everything has one style solution and is extremely interesting architectural monument. On the territory of the Fedorovsky town there is also the Feodorovsky Cathedral, the lower temple of which was the home church of the royal family.
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