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    Tsarskoye Selo (Russian: Ца́рское Село́, IPA: [ˈtsarskəje sʲɪˈlo] , lit. 'Tsar's Village') was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial...
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    (Императорский Царскосельский лицей, Imperatorskiy Tsarskosel'skiy litsey) in Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg, also known historically as the Imperial Alexander...
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    Nicholas was born on 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868, in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo south of Saint Petersburg, during the reign of his paternal grandfather...
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    The Tsarskoye Selo Railway (Russian: Царскосе́льская желе́зная доро́га) was the first public railway line in the Russian Empire. It ran for 27 km (17 mi)...
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    Pushkin, Saint Petersburg (category Tsarskoye Selo)
    from the center of St. Petersburg proper, and its railway station, Tsarskoye Selo, is directly connected by railway to the Vitebsky Rail Terminal of the...
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    The Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo (Danish: Traktaten i Zarskoje Selo, Russian: Царскосельский договор) also called (Mageskiftetraktakten) in Danish, was a...
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    Alexander Pushkin (category Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum alumni)
    by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycée, Pushkin recited his controversial...
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    Екатерининский дворец, romanized: Yekaterininskiy dvorets) is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of St. Petersburg, Russia...
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    practitioner of early neoclassical architecture, was the chief architect of Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk palaces and the adjacent new town of Sophia from his arrival...
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    to become a nurse. She tended to wounded soldiers on the grounds of Tsarskoye Selo from 1914 to 1917. Her time as a nurse came to an end with her family's...
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    Tsarskoye Selo railway station (Russian: станция Царское Село) is a railway station located in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is 23 km down-line...
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    at Tsarskoye Selo and later at residences in Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg in Siberia. Maria attempted to befriend her guards both at Tsarskoye Selo and...
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    envoy. On 28 June 1791, Catherine granted Daikokuya an audience at Tsarskoye Selo. Subsequently, in 1792, the Russian government dispatched a trade mission...
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    backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg. Constructed in the 18th century in Prussia, the...
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    Maria, visited wounded soldiers at a private hospital in the grounds at Tsarskoye Selo. The two teenagers, too young to become Red Cross nurses like their...
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  • Riding Mountain (roller coaster) (category Tsarskoye Selo)
    gorka) was the name of two entertainment pavilions built in 1754–1757 in Tsarskoye Selo and in 1762–1774 in Oranienbaum royal residences of the Russian Empress...
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    Imperatorsky pavilyon railway station (category Tsarskoye Selo)
    The Emperor's railway station or Emperor's Tsarskoye Selo Station, known as the Emperor's Pavilion (Russian: Императорский павильон, transliteration Imperatorsky...
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    Egyptian Gate of Tsarskoye Selo was built in 1829 to replace the old toll bar, which had been made redundant by the expansion of Tsarskoe Selo. The gate, which...
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  • a list of alumni and faculty associated with Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. During 33 years of the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum's existence, there were 286 graduates...
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    Alexandra Feodorovna, Gedroits became the senior resident physician at the Tsarskoye Selo Court Hospital, "with a salary of 2,100 rubles and a state apartment"...
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    Alexandra treated wounded soldiers at a hospital on the grounds of Tsarskoye Selo. Olga was disdainful of her cousin Princess Irina of Russia's husband...
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    Olga Zenajda Godebska, known as Misia, was born on 30 March 1872 in Tsarskoye Selo, a town known as the Tsar's village, 13 miles outside Saint Petersburg...
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    Alexandrovskiy dvorets) is a former imperial residence near the town of Tsarskoye Selo in Russia, on a plateau about 30 miles (48 km) south of Saint Petersburg...
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    the army's morale. When the dog was left at the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, the sisters wrote to Alexei: "Joy misses you very much." Joy was a...
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    library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and is probably a copy of the Tsarskoye Selo Picture. Early depictions of Steller's sea cow The Pallas Picture: the...
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    Saint-Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo, and called the Tsarskoye Selo Railway. It was 27 km (17 mi) long and linked the Imperial Palaces at Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk...
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    the Emperor will be asked to sign this Manifesto on 1 March at the Tsarskoye Selo railway station immediately after his return. Late in the evening the...
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    including the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg and the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, are famed for extravagant luxury and opulence of decoration. Rastrelli...
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    Vladimirovich of Russia was born on 12 October [O.S. 30 September] 1876 in Tsarskoye Selo, at his parents' country residence, the Vladimir Villa. His father was...
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    gave him three children. Grand Duke Paul's early years were spent at Tsarskoye Selo and at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, with vacations at Livadia...
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