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	Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo)
		Tsarskoe Selo (Royal Village), located 25 km south of St. Petersburg, first appeared in the 18C as the summer residence of the Russian tsars.
		Tsarskoe Selo became the place for official receptions of Russian nobility and representatives of foreign states, who were visiting Russia with diplomatic missions.
		Here, in Tsarskoe Selo, Pushkin’s presence can be felt everywhere: in the beautiful Tsarskoe Selo Park where the young poet used to wonder, in the town to which Pushkin dedicated so many of his famous verses, and in the building of the Lyceum itself, which currently houses a memorial museum.
	www.infoservices.com /stpete/pushkin/index.htm (920 words)

	Tsarskoye Selo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tsarskoye Selo (Russian: Ца́рское Село́; may be translated as "Tsar’s Village") is a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility 24 km south of St. Petersburg.
		The literary traditions of Tsarskoye Selo were continued in the 20th century by such notable poets as Anna Akhmatova and Innokenty Annensky.
		In 1918, the Tsar's Village was renamed by the Bolsheviks into Detskoye Selo (Children's Village) and in 1937 it was renamed again to the town of Pushkin, thus commemorating the centenary of the poet's death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tsarskoe_Selo (622 words)

	Tsarskoe Selo
		The Park and Palace ensemble of Tsarskoe Selo (Tsar's Village) is an exquisite monument of Russian art and culture with a world-wide reputation.
		Tsarskoe Selo was transformed into a majestic architectural ensemble that surpassed all other residences in Russia in size and splendour.
		In the second half of the 18th century, a new era in the history of Tsarskoe Selo began, as it was the favourite domicile of Catherine II.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/hornton/890/TsarskoeSelo/tsarskoe.html (967 words)

	Tsarskoe Selo History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tsarskoe Selo was indeed "an enchanted fairy land to which only a small number of people had the riht of entry." This was the Tsar's Village, the home of several generations of Romanovs, a great symbol of what was once the largest empires in the world.
		Catherine the Great had another architect build the Alexander Palace for her grandson, who would be Alexander I. The two palaces were set 500 yards apart, on an 800 acre plot of land.
		A little town outside the gates was Tsarskoe Selo, full of the aristocrats full of Court gossip and jealousies.
	www.expage.com /tshistory (429 words)

	OUTSKIRTS of Saint Petersburg, Russia, Tsarskoe Selo, Globe-Tour, Pushkin, Peterhof, Petrodvorets, Gatchina, Pavlovsk, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1719 - 1720, near the hillock, on the territory of the future town, there emerged a settlement of palace servants, and measures were taken to bring order to the planning and construction of the colony.
		This is the Alexander, or "New" Tzarskoje Selo Palace.
		The foundation was laid in 1792 by order of Empress Catherine II the Great, and the palace presented as a gift to her first and favorite grandson, Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich (the future Emperor Alexander I) on the occasion of his marriage to Grand Duchess Elizaveta Alexeevna.
	www.globe-tour.ru /en/spb_3_ep.htm (1090 words)

	Tsarskoe Selo - Train Station and Railroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The new station at Tsarskoe Selo was built in 1904, at the same time as the terminus in St. Petersburg; the railroad was widened and the line prolonged until Jlobin.
		The movement began in autumn 1836 from Tsarskoe Selo to Pavlovsk; the engines having not arrived from England, the trains were first drawn by horse.
		The price for the journey to Tsarskoe Selo, during the first few years was 2 rubles 50 kopecks in a first class carriage, 1 ruble 80 kopecks in a 'diligence', and 80 kopecks in a simple open cart for the common people.
	www.alexanderpalace.org /tsarskoe/train.html (2031 words)

	The Nostalgic Glass \| Tsarksoe Selo
		Tsarskoe Selo especially prospered during the reign of Catherine the Great.
		Tsarskoe Selo suffered under Paul’s reign, which happily was only 5 years long on account of Paul’s timely demise.
		In 1887 Tsarskoe Selo became the first city in Europe to be completely lit by electricity; in 1902 it got some of the most advanced water, sewage and waste water treatment facilities available.
	nostalgicglass.org /background.php?pn=12 (593 words)

	Tsarskoye Selo / Pushkin
		Tsarskoye Selo (formerly known as Pushkin) is one of St. Petersburg's numerous Imperial estates.
		One of the best-hidden secrets of the Tsarskoye Selo estate is the Alexander Palace, built between 1792 and 1796 by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi.
		Another of Tsarskoye Selo's major attractions is the Lyceum, located on the edge of the estate.
	www.saint-petersburg.com /pushkin/index.asp (650 words)

	The Beginnings of Railways in Russia
		However, he was unable to raise sufficient capital for the St. Petersburg to Moscow line, and had to abandon that in favor of the shorter line to Tsarskoe Selo.
		Stations at St. Petersburg, Moscow Chaussee, Tsarskoe Selo, and Pavlovsk were built, along with offices and living quarters for supervisory personnel and sheds and repair shops for locomotives and carriages were built.
		Following the success of the Tsarskoe Selo Railway, others were planned and built.
	www.fink.com /papers/russia.html (3218 words)

	The town of Pushkin. Tsarskoje Selo. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pushkin (the former Tsarskoye Selo), one of the most beautiful suburbs of Saint Petersburg, is the focus of the exhibition, held at the Cartography Department.
		Tsarskoye Selo /Tsar's Village/ was built on the spot of the land where before was situated a Finnish estate, "Saarskaya Myza" /Saari Farmstead/.
		The Plan of the Town of Tsarskoye Selo with its Environs.
	www.nlr.ru:8101 /eng/exib/pushkin (282 words)

	Russian Royal Family The Last Easter -Pascha- For Tsar Martryr Nicholas II & Family, April 1917
		In spite of their house arrest at Tsarskoe Selo, and the Tsar's abdication, we see that the Royal Family, and household servants, were still very loving and kind to those around them, sharing their joy in celebrating the Passion of our Lord - which was to become their passion leading, eventually to their Golgotha.
		The news came that the Sovereign, called to Tsarskoe Selo by the Empress and already hurrying from Headquarters back to his dear family, has been detained on the road and arrested, and it is even possible that he has abdicated from the throne.
		When the Sovereign arrived at Tsarskoe Selo from Headquarters on 9 March, I was invited by a telephone call from the Aleksandrovsky Palace to come and conduct the vigil (venoshnaia) and a long history in the palace church together with members of the court staff: archdeacon, psalm reader, and choristers (four).
	www.serfes.org /royal/pasha.htm (4644 words)

	Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo
		In Petersburg the palace had been designed a year-round Imperial residence; in Tsarskoe Selo the palace would function as a summer home, to be used only a few months out of the year.
		Millions were required to build the palace and they were made in the immediate vicinity of the of Tsarskoe Selo from local clays.
		She adored the parties and elegance of Tsarskoe Selo over the austerity of her husband's own preference, Gatchina.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/hornton/890/Alex.html (3178 words)

	Tsarskoe Selo Palace Porcelain, Nicholas II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tsarskoe Selo Palace Porcelain, Nicholas II Porcelain dinner plates from the service of Tsarskoe Selo palace, painted with Imperial eagles.
		Porcelain cups and saucers from the service of Tsarskoe Selo palace, Imperial Porcelain Factory 1914 (green cipher marks).
		Porcelain cream jug from a service of the Tsarskoe Selo palace, painted with fl Imperial eagle.
	www.romanovrussia.com /TsSelo.html (145 words)

	Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo) - Museums at TicketsOfRUSSIA.ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Palace-and-Park ensemble of Tsarskoye Selo - a former country residence of Russian emperors - is a fascinating monument of the world's architectural and gardening arts of the XVIII-XX centuries.
		In 1719-1720 near the country house on the territory of a future town there was a sloboda of church servants and there were measures on its planing and constructing, and with the beginning of palace building the Sarskoe selo was renamed into the Tsarskoe selo.
		During two centuries the Tsarskoe selo was the summer Parade Emperor residence; its creating dependent much on personal tastes and caprises of changing owners.
	www.ticketsofrussia.ru /museums/pushkin.html (2359 words)

	Pushkin's Biography
		In 1811 he was selected to be among the thirty students in the first class at the Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo.
		In 1815 his poem "Recollections in Tsarskoe Selo" met the approval of Derzhavin, a great eighteenth-century poet, at a public examination in the Lyceum.
		After graduating from the Lyceum, he was given a sinecure in the Collegium of Foreign Affairs in Petersburg.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~pleckesg/Pushkin/Bio.html (1807 words)

	Youth Choir from Pushkin
		In 1937 the name was changed to Pushkin, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the great Russian poet’s tragic death.
		Tsarskoe Selo is associated with Russia’s greatest poet Alexander Pushkin, who studied in the town’s Lyceum from 1811 to 1817.
		Here, in Tsarskoe Selo, Pushkin’s presence can be felt everywhere - in the beautiful Tsarskoe Selo Park where the young poet used to walk, in the town to which he dedicated so many of his famous poems, and in the building of the Lyceum itself, which currently houses Pushkin’s Memorial Museum.
	www.russianfestival.org /youth_choir_from_pushkin.htm (350 words)

	Chinese Village (Tsarskoe Selo) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chinese Village in the Alexander Park of Tsarskoe Selo, Russia was Catherine the Great's attempt to follow the 18th-century fashion for the Chinoiserie.
		Probably inspired by a similar project in Drottningholm, Catherine ordered Antonio Rinaldi and Charles Cameron to model the village after a contemporary Chinese engraving from her personal collection.
		After Catherine failed in her ambition to procure a genuine Chinese architect, the Russian ambassador in London was instructed to obtain for Tsarskoe Selo a replica of William Chambers' pagoda in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - a central structure of the Chinoiserie architecture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_Village_(Tsarskoe_Selo) (380 words)

	John Kochurov - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After returning to Russia he was assigned to Estonia where he put into action the teaching skills he learned in America before he was assigned in 1916 to Tsarskoe Selo.
		Then in October 1917 the Bolshevik upraising in St. Petersburg spilled over quickly into Tsarskoe Selo as the town was attacked by Bolshevik elements.
		On October 31, 1917 (old style), the Bolsheviks entered Tsarskoe Selo in force and arrested Fr.
	orthodoxwiki.org /John_Kochurov (733 words)

	anastasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Back in Tsarskoe Selo the Tsaritsa had converted parts of the Catherine Palace, which was near their own Alexandre Palace, into a army hospital, she along with her eldest two daughters, Olga and Tatiana, became fully certified Red Cross nurses.
		Anastasia and her older sister, Marie, were too young to become nurses, yet they became patrons of their own hospital which was created out of a church which was in the Imperial Park.
		Riots and street demonstrations were becoming more and more prevalent so the leader of the new Provisional government: Kerensky, arranged for the family and any servants who wished to go to leave Tsarskoe Selo for an undisclosed location.
	www.concentric.net /~Tsarskoe (4231 words)

	Mo's Photo's: Tsarskoe Selo
		Wednesday, June 6 I took the train to Pushkin, a beautiful town about 6 miles south of Kupchino station.
		It is the home of Catherine the Great's summer palace, known as Tsarskoe Selo, or Tsar's Village.
		The famous sculpture of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in the park near Tsarskoe Selo.
	www.geocities.com /mo_spb/photo8.html (266 words)

	Tanya's Diary ~ Album II ~ 1913-1918
		During these years, I contracted typhoid and had my hair chopped off (1913), served as a Red Cross nurse during WWI, contracted measles and had my head shaved (1917), and was held captive - along with my family - at Tsarskoe Selo, Tobolsk, and Ekaterinburg.
		Wigs - We know that Tatiana wears a wig in at least some of the 1913 Tercentenary formal shots, most notably the group shot with her mother and sisters.
		Winter, 1913, Tsarskoe Selo, with our cousins (Aunt Xenia's kids), Papa, and Sablin.
	www.livadia.org /tanya/album2.html (208 words)

	The COOK Report On Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Also, the presence at Tsarskoe Selo of N. Karamzin offered Chaadaev the intellectual stimulation of one of the finest minds of the Aleksandrian epoch.
		Before Chaadaev came to Tsarskoe Selo, Aleksandr Griboedov, his friend from his years at Moscow University, had told him about the poems written by this young student on the occasion of Alexander's return to Russia in 1815, and it is probable that Petr intended to seek Pushkin out.
		During the year that he spent at Tsarskoe Selo, Petr's military career continued to progress and on July 15, 1816, he was promoted to lieutenant.
	www.cookreport.com /chapter.4.shtml (11393 words)

	The Mystery of the Amber Room: A bibliography plan
		It was not assembled until the 1740's in the Winter Palace in St. Petersberg, and then in 1755 it was installed in the summer palace Tsarskoe Syolo (or Tsarskoe Selo, among other variants depending on the source).
		I also did a keyword search of TSARSKOE SELO and retrieved over 50 items of which one was relevant, The Palaces of Tsarskoe Selo: the Furniture and Interiors7.
		I then searched TSARSKOE SELO, the summer palace, which retrieved the Latvian article and what appeared to be nothing else relevant, but most were in languages other than English so I can't be positive on that evaluation.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~amberc/amber.html (2962 words)

	St.Petersburg. The Guide: Saint-Petersburg, Pushkin - Tsarskoye Selo (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1708-1724 Tsarskaya Mysa was the residence of Peter the Great's wife, the Empress Catherine I. From 1741 Tsarskoye Selo became the residence of the Empress Elizabeth.
		During the reign of Catherine II (1760-1790) the ensemble of Tsarskoye Selo was supplemented by the creations of Rinaldi, Felten, Cameron and Qvarenghi.
		The individual amber panels were carried from St Petersburg to Tsarskoe Selo by 76 guardsmen in six days.
	travel.spb.ru.cob-web.org:8888 /theguide/pushkin.html (1840 words)

	Tsarskoe Selo (Pushkin) - a Gardens Guide review (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since it was made for an Empress, Tsarskoe Selo has an opulent grandeur uncommon in landscape parks.
		The family of Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas II, lived in the Alexander Palace before their exile and execution in 1917.
		Despite Catherine’s modernizing liberalism, Tsarskoye Selo became their Versailles.
	www.gardenvisit.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ge/tsar.htm (331 words)

	Tsarskoe Selo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the Soviet era Tsarskoe Selo (Tsar's Village) was known as "Pushkin".
		The local station is still called "Detskoe Selo" (Children's Village).
		The leaf filled hats following their owners back home again on the train to St Petersburg.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~trevora/holiday2004/tsarskoeSelo.html (221 words)

	The National Organization of Russian Scouts
		The National Organisation of Russian Scouts was founded in 1909 following the visit of Lord Baden Powell to Russia.
		Tsar Nicholas II commissioned Colonel Oleg Pantuhoff to start Russian Scouting, and the first troop was formed at Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg in 1909.
		The first Russian Scout campfire was lit in the woods of Tsarskoe Selo, in Pavlosk Park, to be exact.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /norsold1.htm (1286 words)

	Gilbert's Royal Books - Last Days at Tsarskoe Selo - Count Paul Benckendorff
		The personal notes and memories of Count Paul Benckendorff; telling of the last sojourn of the Emperor & Empress of Russia at Tsarskoe Selo from March 1 to August 1, 1917
		A recollection of the 1 March to 1 August 1917 stay of the Romanovs at the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo.
		Benckendorff, who was the Grand Marshall of the Imperial Court and shared the captivity of the Romanovs at Tsarskoe Selo, provides a detailed account of Nicholas II’s abdication, transfer to Tsarskoe Selo, and daily life during his six months there under house arrest.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/ImperialRussian/grb/grbpg03.html (129 words)

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