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  Krasnoye Selo --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The name Krasnoye Selo, meaning “beautiful village,” has been in use since 1730, when it described three settlements located southwest of St.
Krasnoye Selo was the site of one of the summer residences for the tsars and the summer camp for Russian soldiers stationed in St. Petersburg.
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 Appendix to Chapter IX. Reed, John. 1922. Ten Days That Shook the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The seizure of Gatchina and Tsarskoye Selo by Kerensky’s detachments is to be explained by the complete absence of artillery and machine-guns in these places, whereas Kerensky’s cavalry was provided with artillery from the beginning.
A parliamentarian came from them to the staff of the detachment at Krasnoye Selo, and proposed to stop the firing, threatening otherwise to take “decisive” measures.
From the Tsarskoye Selo station a radio-telegram was sent immediately to the Front and to all local Soviets throughout Russia.
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 AllRefer.com - Krasnoye Selo (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Krasnoye Selo[krAs´nuyu syilO´] Pronunciation Key, district, NW European Russia.
It is a rail terminus and has industries producing paper and plastics.
Krasnoye Selo was a favorite summer resort of Saint Petersburg before the Russian Revolution.
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 Operational Situation Report USSR No. 136
As a result of an investigation in the area around Krasnoye Selo, which took place from October 18 to 28, 1941, 70 suspicious persons were arrested and thoroughly interrogated.
The provisional mayor appointed by the local military commander in Krasnoye Selo and some of his assistants were objectionable from a political point of view.
With the agreement of the local military commander, they were discharged and the two of them were executed, since they had previously been active in the Communist Party, In all, 118 persons were executed in the period October 24 to November 5, 1941, 31 of these because of their activities as agents.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/sitrep136.html   (304 words)

  
 Chapter 9. Victory. Reed, John. 1922. Ten Days That Shook the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
They must enter into close liaison with the detachments of Colpinno and Krasnoye Selo, and also with the Staff of the Commander in Chief for the Defence of Petrograd.
At Colpinno, at Obukhovo, at Pulkovo and Krasnoye Selo were formed provisional detachments, increased in size as the stragglers came in from the surrounding country—mixed soldiers, sailors and Red Guards, parts of regiments, infantry, cavalry and artillery all together, and a few armoured cars.
The left road, along which the remnants of the Cossacks had retreated, led up a little hill to a hamlet, where there was a glorious view of the immense plain, grey as a windless sea, tumultuous clouds towering over, and the imperial city disgorging its thousands along all the roads.
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 Alexander Mozhaiski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
It was a monoplane with a large tractor propeller, and two small pusher propellers, driven by a steam engine.
Mozhaiski's aeroplane made its maiden flight at Krasnoye Selo in 1884.
It was launched from a ramp and flew for 98 feet (29.87 m).
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /AVmozhaiski.htm   (144 words)

  
 Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed - APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII
At once the garrison divided into three groups—the officers, loyal to Kerenskly; part of the soldiers and non-commissioned officers, who declared themselves “neutral”; and most of the rank and file, who were for the Bolsheviki.
From Pulkovo six members of the Tsarskoye Selo Soviet went with an automobile-load of proclamations to Gatchina, to propagandise the Cossacks.
On the 11th Cossack outposts reached Krasnoye Selo, from which the local Soviet and the heterogeneous forces of the Military Revolutionary Committee precipitately retired, some of them surrendering….
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 Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed - Victory
At Colpinno, at Obukhovo, at Pulkovo and Krasnoye Selo were formed provisional detachments, increased in size as the stragglers came in from the surrounding country-mixed soldiers, sailors and Red Guards, parts of regiments, infantry, cavalry and artillery all together, and a few armoured cars.
In the middle distance nothing broke the flat monotony but a few walled monasteries and convents, some isolated factories, and several large buildings with unkempt grounds that were asylums and orphanages....
It was dark when we came to the barracks of the Second Tsarskoye Selo Rifles, low sprawling buildings huddled along the post-road.
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 The Chinese Village
The galleries, gates leading to the village and the pagoda never went beyond the planning stage.
The Great Caprice with its view of the Tzarskoje Selo parks fulfilled the role of the pagoda, and its smaller archway served as gates at the entrance to the Chinese Village.
Originally the walls of the houses were faced with glazed ceramic tile produced by the Albert Conradi manufactory at Krasnoye Selo.
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 Icon Of Nicholas II To Travel Over Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He wishes that the icon be carried by processions with a cross to all churches and monasteries of his diocese.
The icon is now kept at the Moscow Church of All Saints at Krasnoye Selo.
The miracle of the icon's exuding ointment and delicate fragrance continues.
www.antipas.org /news/russia/nicholas_icon.html   (375 words)

  
 Nicholas II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
was born at Krasnoye Selo in May 1868.
He made a speech in January, 1895, denouncing the "senseless dreams" of those who favour democratic reforms.
Considering it too modern, they moved the family residence in 1895 from Anichkov Palace to Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, where they lived in seclusion.
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 Tsar Nicholas and the Great War
In reality, all of these things and more had to do with the downfall of Russia, the withdrawal from the war, and the subsequent Soviet Union.
Nicholas II was born in Krasnoye Selo on May 18,1868 as the eldest son of Alexander III, the son of the then Tsar Alexander II (Massie, 12) At this time Russia was a relatively calm place with the Decembrist uprising of 1825 and the Napoleonic Wars behind, Russia looked to the future.
The era was called "The Golden Age of Russian Literature" and "The Age of Great Reforms" and things were moving in a positive more western direction (Bucknell, 1).
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 www.rian.ru
Talking to RIA Novosti, people at the St. Petersburg municipal government's labor committee noted that former concentration-camp inmates living in the city will visit a monument dedicated to the Leningrad region's children in line with official events.
Wreaths and flowers will be laid at a cornerstone to a monument to former concentration-camp inmates in Krasnoye Selo, a St. Petersburg suburb.
This solemn ceremony will take place in an impressive setting.
en.rian.ru /onlinenews/20050411/39697890-print.html   (156 words)

  
 Ten Days That Shook the World, Chapter 9: Victory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Krasnov’S Answer To The Committee For Salvation “In answer to your telegram proposing an immediate armistice, the Supreme Commander, not wishing further futile bloodshed, consents to enter into negotiations and to establish relations between the armies of the Government and the insurrectionists.
He proposes to the General Staff of the insurrectionists to recall its regiments to Petrograd, to declare the line Ligovo-Pulkovo-Colpinno neutral, and to allow the advance-guards of the Government cavalry to enter Tsarskoye Selo, for the purpose of establishing order.
Events At Tsarskoye Selo On the evening that Kerensky’s troops retreated from Tsarskoye Selo, some priests organised a religious procession through the streets of the town, making speeches to the citizens in which they asked the people to support the rightful authority, the Provisional Government.
www.marxists.org /archive/reed/works/1919/10days/ch9.htm   (7333 words)

  
 Map of Krasnoye Selo, Primorskiy Kray, Russia Russia | Multimap.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Map of Krasnoye Selo, Primorskiy Kray, Russia Russia
Map of Krasnoye Selo, Primorskiy Kray, Russia Russia
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 Greetings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Before Petrograd, where the Seventh Army has begun to beat Yudenich, your victories have inspired a fresh access of energy.
To the capture of Voronezh the Seventh Army will reply with the capture of Krasnoye Selo, Gatchina, Yamburg and Gdov.
On its second anniversary the Soviet Republic displays invincibility for all the world to see.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1919-mil/ch106.htm   (185 words)

  
 Traveljournals.net - Ukraine Locations List - Krasnoye to Krasnoznamenka
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 Traveljournals.net - Russia Locations List - Krasnoye Ramen'ye to Krasnoye Znamya
Traveljournals.net - Russia Locations List - Krasnoye Ramen'ye to Krasnoye Znamya
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