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TSARSKOYE SELO

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 348 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:north See also:Russia, in the See also:government of St See also:Petersburg, and an imperial See also:residence, 15 M. by See also:rail See also:south of the See also:capital. Pop. (1885), 15,000; (1897), 22,353. The town stands on the Duderhof Hills and consists (1) of the town proper, surrounded by villages and a See also:German See also:colony, which are summer resorts for the inhabitants of St Petersburg; and (2) of the imperial parks and palaces. The former is built on a See also:regular See also:plan, and its houses nearly all stand in gardens. The See also:cathedral of St See also:Catherine is a See also:miniature copy of that at See also:Constantinople. The imperial parks and gardens See also:cover 168o acres; the See also:chief of them is the " old " See also:garden, containing the " old See also:palace," built (1724) by Rastrelli and gorgeously decorated with See also:mother-of-See also:pearl, See also:marbles, See also:amber, lapis lazuli, See also:silver and See also:gold; the See also:gallery of See also:Cameron adorned with See also:fine statues and entrance See also:gates; numerous pavilions and kiosks; and a See also:bronze statue (1900) of the poet See also:Pushkin. A second palace, the See also:Alexander, was built by Catherine II. in 1792, and has in its See also:park an See also:historical museum and an See also:arsenal. When See also:Peter the See also:Great took See also:possession of the mouth of the See also:Neva, a Finnish See also:village, Saari-mois, stood on the site now occupied by the town, and its Russified name Sarskaya was changed into Tsarskoye when Peter presented it to his wife Catherine. It was especially embellished by the tsaritsa See also:Elizabeth. Under Catherine II., a town, See also:Sophia, was built See also:close by, but its inhabitants were transferred to Tsarskoye Selo under Alexander I. The railway connecting the town with St Petersburg was the first (1838) to be constructed in Russia.

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