Tsarskoye Selo photos. Tsarskoye Selo old photos

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 the palaces. In 2012, Elena Astashkevich invited me to her place, and I enthusiastically walked, explored and discovered a magnificent city, in which, as it turned out, there are many interesting architectural monuments.

Let's walk along several streets of Pushkin and admire the old houses, each of which has a long interesting story behind it.

Pushkin (until 1918 - Tsarskoye Selo, from 1918 to 1937 - Detskoye Selo) - a city within the Pushkinsky district of the federal city of St. Petersburg and its intracity municipality. A large tourist, scientific, educational and military-industrial center. It is included in the list of monuments protected by UNESCO as part of the Historic 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 census (as of October 14) - 92,889 people.
The railway line St. Petersburg - Vitebsk passes through the city, the Tsarskoye Selo railway station and the 21st km stopping point are located on its territory. The distance between Vitebsky Train Station in St. Petersburg and Tsarskoye 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 Neva lowland.
Pushkin was founded in 1710 as the imperial country residence of Tsarskoe Selo, a city since 1808. The city has a museum-reserve "Tsarskoye Selo" - a monument of urban art and a palace and park ensemble of the 18th - early 20th centuries. The reserve includes Catherine's Park with the Catherine's Palace and other buildings (from Wikipedia).

Lyceum and Catherine's Palace from Palace Street

And here is Lyceum Garden, which is adjacent to the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and the Church of the Sign. 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

Next to it is an old one, the melodic ringing of bells which makes you mentally transport yourself to the brilliant 18th century.

Church of the Sign

The interior of the Church of the Sign

Palace (Resurrection) Church

The old Gostiny Dvor built in 1866 has been preserved. And today trade is in full swing here, fashionable shops are located.

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 in 1835, the construction was carried out under the guidance 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 Moscow and Konyushennaya streets rises the chapel of the Holy Blessed Prince Igor of Chernigov. At this place during the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis carried out mass executions.

Chapel of the Holy Prince Igor of Chernigov

Another famous monument is the fence of the Catherine Palace and the cast-iron triumphal ones, erected according to the project 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 gates is the Spare Palace, built in 1817-1824 as a country palace of Count V.P. In 1835 the palace was redeemed to the treasury for the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, and since 1859 it became officially known as the Tsarskoye Selo Spare Palace. Since 2010, the Wedding Palace has been located here.

Dacha Kochubey (Reserve Palace)

Store of the Guards Economic Society

Manor of Bagration

At the intersection of Sofia Boulevard and Moskovsky Prospekt, you can see the Moscow Gates. Their other name - Friedenthal - refers us 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 (Fredenthal) Gate

On Naberezhnaya Street, on the banks of the Bathing Pond, you can see another monument - the building of the Banknote Paper Factory, built in 1785. Previously, the Petrovsky mill was located here. In the old days it was a secret facility.

Imperial Nikolaev Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium

Sadovaya street

Tsarskoye Selo (the city of Pushkin) is unusually beautiful. You can spend more than one day here, slowly strolling along the ancient quiet streets, looking at the palaces and dachas of the most brilliant families of the Russian Empire. We have seen only a small piece of this wonderful city. I hope you liked it.

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- a palace and park ensemble in the city of Pushkin. Pushkin is a city in the Pushkinsky district. It was founded in 1710 as the imperial country residence of Tsarskoye Selo. Since 1808 it has been considered a city. It is currently included in the list of monuments protected by UNESCO.

The former royal residence with a palace, parks, numerous buildings, monuments, sculptures is currently a museum-reserve, which is open to visitors. Tsarskoe Selo is one of the most popular destinations for tourists from all over the world who come to Russia on vacation. Tsarskoye Selo has historical and architectural value. It consists of the Great Catherine Palace, which, among other things, houses the famous Amber Room, Catherine Park and Alexander Park. The whole complex covers an area of ​​107 hectares. On the territory of the parks there are a large number of historical sights and simply beautiful and incredibly picturesque places. Visit Tsarskoye Selo and spend your day off walking in the most beautiful places where only high-ranking persons could once walk, breathe fresh air, get acquainted with a 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' Soaphouse, 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 idols of Catherine II.

Evening hall. Construction 1796-1810. Used as a concert hall.

Ruin kitchen. Built by G. Quarenghi in the 1780s.

Creaky gazebo. Built in 1778-1786. It got its name from the weather vane, which creaks strongly when rotating in the wind.

Ruin tower. Built in 1771. Symbol of the fall of the Ottoman Porte. The tower resembles the ruins of a fortification, from the upper platform of which a stunning view of the surrounding landscape opens up.

Marble bridge. Colonnade on a granite base with stairs on the sides. Built in 1774.

Pyramid. Erected in 1782-83. At the foot of the pyramid are buried Catherine II's favorite dogs - Tom Anderson, Zemira and Duchesse.

Turkish bath. Built in 1828-29.

Large lake in the Catherine Park.

The most convenient way to arrive in Tsarskoye Selo is by rail from the Tsarskoselsky (Vitebsky) railway station.
The railway station in Tsarskoye Selo was laid in September 1836, half a kilometer from the border of Tsarskoye Selo, which ran along Bulvarnaya Street (there was a project to build a ring railway around Tsarskoye Selo, but this idea was soon rejected). The station building, designed by the architect G. Fossati, was opened in September 1837. Evenings, balls, concerts, performances were held in it. For the exit of passengers to the train and for visitors, two platforms with canopies were built. There was a semicircular square in front of the building, from which there were 5 alleys.

"Ylang-ylang smelled all over the station
Not the last one that will burn sometime
And the very first, main - the White Hall
In it, dancing - was richly removed,
But no one was dancing in that hall. "

Anna Akhmatova

The new station in Tsarskoye Selo was built in 1904, simultaneously with the new Petersburg station, when the old route from St. Petersburg to Pavlovsk was changed to the Russian gauge and the road continued from Pavlovsk.

Officers and soldiers near the Tsarskoye Selo railway station at the bell on the day it was raised to the belfry of the church of His Majesty's Own Convoy and the Combined Infantry Regiment. Photo: Photograph of Bulla's studio. February 10, 1912. TsGAKFFD St. Petersburg. E 7044

Participants of the procession near the building of the Tsarskoye Selo railway station. Photo: Photograph of Bulla's studio. 1912. TsGAKFFD St. Petersburg. E 13015
Remarkably visible details of the architecture of the station.

Boulevard Street (October Boulevard) is part of the so-called. Tsarskoselsky Boulevard, conceived by Alexander I. According to the idea of ​​Emperor Alexander I, the whole of Tsarskoye Selo was to be surrounded by a boulevard, along which, having left one end of the old Catherine Park, bypassing the city streets, one could go around the whole city and return to the palace through Alexander Park . Boulevard of the times of Alexander I It started from the Pavlovsk highway, turned at a right angle to the west and reached the Alexander Park. It still exists in the same form, and in 1839 it was extended to the railway station. Part of the boulevard from Pavlovsky highway to the station is now called Sofiysky, and part of it near the barracks of His Majesty's Own convoy, built on a site allocated from Alexander Park, is called Kuzminsky.

Boulevard Street, Catherine's Cathedral is visible, the palace is in the distance

"I changed Peter
foggy and gloomy
For a daily walk
along the Boulevard."

Basil
Komarovsky

4) A wooden house in which the local community of the Red Cross, which is under the patronage of the Empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, is located.
Corner with Leontievskaya street. The site is not yet what it appears in its modern form.

The walk along the boulevard near the Egyptian Gate ends

Near the gate, just north of the intersection of the current Academic Avenue and Academic Lane, the building of the Officers' Assembly of the E.I.V. convoy was built.

The 100th anniversary of the Imperial convoy (1911) was approaching, which they decided to celebrate by erecting a building for its officers' assembly not far from the convoy barracks. In fact, it was a club room for officers and was built as a gift to the convoy from the emperor himself. The order was entrusted to von Gauguin, a well-known architect who held a major post in the military department. But when his project was shown to Nicholas II, he was already under the spell of Pokrovsky's project and "expressed the wish that the style of the new building be in harmony with the style of the church to be built."

Pokrovsky was called, and on August 10 the emperor approved his draft design. The place was chosen in the same place where the old meeting was located - a small wooden house. The officers' collection was a copy of the palace of Tsarevich Dmitry (son of Ivan the Terrible) in Uglich with decorative elements borrowed from the architecture of the Moscow Kremlin and ancient Russian buildings in the north. In plan, the building resembled a developed ward structure of the 17th century with a “verb”.

Convoys in front of the building of the Officers' Assembly.

According to the memoirs of N.V. Galushkin, “the dining room of the officer assembly was especially distinguished by its style, having a wooden block ceiling, a large tiled stove with painted tiles and two round, dark birch chandeliers. Near the walls and under the windows of the dining-room, as in old Russian chambers, stood long benches of dark oak, upholstered in scarlet cloth. There was a sideboard running the length of the wall of the dining room, made of the same oak as the pews. The carving of old ornaments decorated it. The door in the buffet itself led directly to the kitchen.

The billiard room, the duty officer's room, and the room for the Cossacks on duty by the telephone were located on the other side of the corridor stretching from the entrance to the Assembly to the dining room.
The living room was decorated in an oriental spirit, since many officers of the convoy in the past and present came from the aristocrats of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Chief's office in the Officers' Assembly

The building of the Officers' Assembly was badly damaged during the Great Patriotic War, and it was completely dismantled in 1967.

Tsarskoye Selo is located in the city of Pushkin near St. Petersburg. Today it is a popular tourist destination, where tourists from almost all countries of the world come every day. 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 an amazingly beautiful place, which is definitely worth a visit. Nowadays, anyone who decides to spend time on a trip to Pushkin can visit the parks and the palace, but at a time when the royal family ruled Russia, entry here was strictly forbidden. Tsarskoye Selo was the royal summer residence for several centuries. Emperors and empresses lived and rested here, arranged military reviews, receptions for high-ranking guests.

Here you can see a selection old photographs of Tsarskoye Selo. At the dawn of the formation of photography, photographers simply could not pass by the picturesque places of Tsarskoye Selo. And then and now there is something to see and there is something to photograph. It is worth noting that looking at old photographs of these places, you understand that practically nothing has changed here for several decades, except in our time, on a good sunny day, crowds of a motley audience roam here, tours take place, and photographers sparkle with flashlights from behind every tree. . Perhaps, in complete preservation of the spring appearance, there is a magical attraction 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 caprice

Gate - TO MY LOVELY CO-WORKERS

Gatchina (Orlovsky) gates

Catherine Park

Cameron Gallery

Cameron Gallery

Chinese gazebo

marble bridge

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 Tsarskoye Selo.
On February 10, 1937, in connection with the 100th anniversary of the death of the poet, the Central Executive Committee of the USSR issued a decree renaming the city to the city of Pushkin. However, there is a social movement in the city that advocates the return of the 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 gates.

03. And some interesting buildings along the avenue.

04. Small tunnel.

Here we are in Pushkin. The main attraction of the city is the museum-reserve "Tsarskoye Selo".

05. The Alexander Palace was built in 1792-1796 by order of Empress Catherine II as a gift for the marriage of her grandson, Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich (future Emperor Alexander I).

06. The project of the palace was made by the famous Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi.

Alexander Park adjoins the palace. It covers an area of ​​120 hectares. It consists of a regular part (New Garden, 1740s, designed by N. Girard) and a Landscape Park (1790s) with three ponds and mounds. Unfortunately, most of the architectural monuments in the park are in critical condition, and every day they continue to collapse.

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 games of the children of Emperor Nicholas I. They got to the island on a small ferry, and later on a rowing boat.

08. Dragon bridge. Its architecture reflected the fascination with China, which 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 in the reign of Empress Catherine II, the figures were made of limestone, the current cast-iron dragons were cast in 1860.

10. Big Chinese bridge. It was built in 1785 according to the project of the architect C. Cameron. The bridge is made of pink granite, the parapet is decorated in the form of large stone vases with hanging intertwined branches of red corals (forged from iron).

11. Such a cute face adorns the bridge from below.

12. Main entrance of the Catherine Palace. Even in winter there are crowds of tourists.

13. We decided not to crowd, and went to the south side. On the left you can see the building that once belonged to the Imperial Lyceum of Tsarskoe Selo. It was here that A.S. 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 Vasilievich Kvasov to expand and improve the palace. It was during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna that the palace acquired its current look and style.

16. In May 1752, she commissioned the architect Rastrelli to rebuild the palace again, as she considered it too old-fashioned and small. After dismantling, grandiose reconstruction and construction work, which 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 landscape English one, separated by a Big Pond.

19. The regular park was laid out in the 1720s by the Dutch masters of landscape gardening J. Roosen and I. Focht on three ledges in front of the imperial palace.

23. Pavilion "Grotto".

25. The Cameron Gallery was conceived by Empress Catherine II for walking. Architect - C. Cameron. The Cameron Gallery is located on a hillside, on the border of the regular and landscape parts of the Catherine Park.

26. Big pond.

27. The cutting of spruce had to be postponed.

It was very cold that day, so, unfortunately, we did not manage to see even half of the park's attractions. Of course, this place is better to be in the warm season.

28. The finale of this day is the shopping center Gallery.