Add to favorite
 
russian visa
    Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo)

The town of Pushkin (formerly Tsarskoe Selo) is situated 20 kilometres away from St. Petersburg. The town used to be the main residence of Russian emperors. Russian famous poets and writers Pushkin, Karamzin, Lermontov, A. Tolstoy, and Ahmatova have lived there.

The Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Reserve is a brilliant monument of the world architecture and park and garden artistry of the 18th-20th centuries. A magnificent group of architects, sculptors and painters brought the desires of their royal clients to life here. In Tsarskoe Selo a full range of artistic styles is represented, from the Baroque (in buildings by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli) and Classical eras (buildings by Charles Cameron, Giacomo Quarenghi, Vasily Stasov and others). Imperial rulers from Catherine the Great to Nicholas II have left their cultural heritage in Tsarskoe Selo.

The compositional centre of the ensemble is the Catherine Palace, a magnificent baroque-style palace. The Great Hall of the palace and the Golden Enfilade of formal halls amaze with luxury of their decoration. When you enter the palace halls, you feel the spirit of the eras of Elizabeth and Catherine, and, to a certain extent, the age of Emperor Alexander I. You will be able to see rare objects of applied arts.

More than 100 architectural objects that cover the total area of 300 hectares occupy the territory of the Catherine and Alexander Parks: from the most magnificent palaces and monuments, to pavilions and bridges. Strolling through the alleys of these parks, you will be fascinated with the views of whimsical lodges, elegant classical buildings, many monuments executed in marble, exotic constructions designed to imitate gothic style, and also Turkish and Chinese styled buildings which lend the park a romantic air.

In 1811, a Lyceum for noble children was launched in Tsarskoe Selo. Young Alexander Pushkin had been studying there from 1811 to 1817. The theme of Lyceum, Tsarskoe Selo and its beautiful parks can be found in all Pushkin’s works. There is Pushkin memorial museum in the Lyceum nowadays.



Tags: Leningrad Region     


Region:


City:






Comment on our site


RSS   twitter      submit


Ïàðòåð


Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo)
  (Leningrad Region)

Cities of the region

    Petergof
    Lomonosov (Oranienbaum)
    Vyborg
    Kronstadt
    Shlisselburg
    Sestroretsk
    Gatchina
    Vsevolozhsk
    Kingisepp
    Kirishi
    Kirovsk
    Luga
    Sertolovo
    Sosnovy Bor
    Tikhvin
    Tosno
    Volkhov
    Boksitogorsk
    Svetogorsk
    Slantsy

Photo gallery








TAGS:
Russian population  Nobel Prize  opinion poll  accident  Russian scientists  Russian science  Far East  Russian sports  Life Saving  Alexei Fatyanov  Romanovs  Anatoly Karpov  business investments in Russia  Moscow restaurants  Russian economy  Russian business  FIFA Fan Fest  Criminal Penalty  Russian tourism  FSB  Poland  Russian Cinema  Kabardino-Balkaria  Rock Music  Exhibitions in Moscow  Arch-Moscow  propaganda  Historical Exhibitions  ExxonMobil  bailiffs  Installations  The Afisha Picnic  Amur Region  Chukotka  Rosa Khutor  St. Petersburg  Yekaterinburg Fifa 2018  transfer to Samara airport  Moscow  Komi Republic  Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia  Russian cosmonautics  poll  Russian Orthodox Church  Museum Panorama of the Borodino Battle  Cars  Ecological Disaster  Russian models  Maria Sharapova  Sergey Diaghilev 


Travel Blogs
Top Traveling Sites