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  2. Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Coordinates: 59°43′3″N 30°23′49″E. The yard of the Imperial Lyceum. 14-year-old Pushkin reciting his poem before old Derzhavin in the Lyceum (painting by Ilya Repin from 1911, the school's centennial ). The Imperial Lyceum (Императорский Царскосельский лицей, Imperatorskiy ...

  3. Tsarskoye Selo (Russian: Ца́рское Село́, IPA: [ˈtsarskəje sʲɪˈlo] ⓘ, lit. ' Tsar's Village ') was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the center of Saint Petersburg. The residence now forms part of the town of Pushkin.

    • The Palace of the first Russian empress. During the Great Northern War, Tsar Peter the Great recaptured the territories on the banks of the Neva River and the Gulf of Finland that had belonged to the Swedes.
    • Rebuilt in baroque style by Peter’s daughter. Tsarskoye Selo became the summer residence of the royal family. The heart of the estate, its calling card, is the Grand Catherine Palace.
    • The palace park occupies almost 200 hectares. During the reign of Catherine the Great an extraordinarily beautiful palace park was created that spread over an area of 170 hectares, and which still stands today.
    • There is another palace and park in Tsarskoye Selo. Tsarskoye Selo is not only about the Catherine Palace and its park. In the 1790s, by order of Catherine the Great, another Italian, Giacomo Quarenghi, built the Alexander Palace in the Classical style.
  4. Education. Oct 19 2017. Stepan Ivanov. Ilya Repin. Alexander Pushkin recites his poem before Gavrila Derzhavin during the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum exam on Jan. 8, 1815. Public domain. Follow...

  5. 18 Фото. Просмотреть галерею. The palace-and-park ensemble of Tsarskoe Selo (the Tsarskoe Selo State Museum and Heritage Site) is a superb monument of world-ranking architecture and garden-and-park design dating from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

  6. The display of the Catherine Palace (known until 1910 as the Great Palace of Tsarskoe Selo) covers the 300-year history of this outstanding edifice and presents the work of architects involved in its construction and decoration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and also with the achievements of the restorers who returned the palace to l...

  7. The Palace-and-Park ensemble of Pushkin (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, famous for the splendor of its Baroque interiors, including the stunning Gold suite of rooms and the unique Amber Room, the 8th wonder of ...

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