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Kazanskoe Cemetery
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1784
25 June. A.D. Lanskoi, a favourite of Catherine II, died in Tsarskoye Selo. In 1785 the architector G. Quarenghi built the mausoleum over Lanskoy's grave. Later it was consecrated as the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
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1801
The Tsarskoye Selo inheritated estate had a population of about 7,900. The Tsarskoye Selo Office was renamed the board with the staff in quantity of 311 employees. The Full Councillor of State A.I
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1846
27 November. Andrei Afanasyevich Vetvenitsky was appointed the senior priest of the Cathedral of St. Catherine in Tsarskoye Selo. He was buried in the Kazansky cemetery in 1883 ( the grave is preserved)
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1885
Captain V.E. Ionov was appointed as the manager of the Palace Board. He has been working on this position until his death in 1905 and was burried in the Kazansky Cemetery
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Source: Tsarskoe Selo
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1909
4 March. On N.S. Gumilyov's initiative I.F. Annensky was acquainted with the critic S.K. Makovsky and the poet M.A. Voloshin in the flat of I.F. Annensky in Sophia Town
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1913
Society for the protection of maternity and babies began to work under the management of Professor N.V. Yastrebov in the building of the Maternity Orphanage of Drozhzhina (the present address is 14 Pavlovsky Road)
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Source: Tsarskoe Selo
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1942
6 January. The science fiction writer A.R. Belyayev died from starvation in occupied Pushkin Town, he was burried in a common grave in the Kazanskoye Semetery
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Adjutant General, Admiral D.S. Arsenyev (1832 – 1915)
D.S. Arsenyev graduated from the Naval Corps. He participated in the Crimean War of 1853-1856 and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1978.
He was awarded the Diamond St. Alexander Nevsky Order, the White Eagle Order, the I Class Order of St
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Alexander Yakovlevich Letuchy (1908 – 2002)
A.Y. Letuchy was awarded the Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on May 19, 1940. A.Y. Letuchy landed his aircraft in the enemy territory and rescued the crew of the disabled aircraft.
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Artemyev Nikolay Mikhaylovich (1921 – 1990)
Artemyev Nikolay Mikhaylovich was awarded the rank of the Hero of the USSR and Order of Lenin and the medal “Gold Star” (No. 1594) in October of 1943 года for the heroic exploit in the battles during the crossing of the River Dnieper
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Cemeteries (entry)
CEMETERIES. Even before the foundation of St. Petersburg there were several necropolises on the location of the future city: the records of the beginning of the 18th century indicate a Finnish-Swedish cemetery at Elagin (Aptekarsky) Island
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Chistyakov P.P., (1832-1919), artist
CHISTYAKOV Pavel Petrovich (1832-1919, Detskoe Selo), painter and teacher of art. He studied at the Academy of Arts (1849-64) under P.V. Basin. From 1862 to 1870 he was a retainer of the Academy of Arts in Paris and Rome
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Forsh O.D. (1873-1961), writer
FORSH (nee Komarova) Olga Dmitrievna (1873-1961, Tyarlevo, near Pavlovsk), writer. Graduated from Nikolaevsky Orphane Girls' Institute in Moscow in 1891. She studied painting at various art schools, including the home studio of artist P.P
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Frenkel Z. G., (1869-1970), sanitarian
FRENKEL Zakhary Grigorievich (1869-1970, Leningrad), sanitarian and gerontologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1945). He graduated from the faculty of medicine of Yuryev University (1895) and worked as a district
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General of the Artillery E.V. Brimmer (1797 – 1874)
E.V. Brimmer was the Artillery Officer of the Caucasian Military District between 1848 and 1856. He led the artillery during the campaign against the Turks in the Asia Minor in 1853.
He was awarded the IV Class Order of St
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General of the Artillery I.K. Arnoldi (1783 – 1860)
A legendary horse artillerist. A hero of the Patriotic War of 1812.
I.K. Arnoldi was awarded the IV Class Order of St. Vladimir with a bow, the IV Class Order of St. George, the I Class Order of St. Ann, and the St. Alexander Nevsky Order
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General of the Artillery V.F. Bely (1854 – 1913)
V.F. Bely participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. He is a hero of defense of Port Arthur.
He was awarded the IV Class Order of St. Ann, the III Class Order of St. Stanislav with swords, the IV Class Order of St
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Gnedich T.G. (1907-1976), writer
GNEDICH Tatyana Grigorievna (1907-1976, town Pushkin) writer, translator, PhD (philology,1941). She was a great-great-grand-nephew of N. I. Gnedich. She lived in Leningrad from 1926
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Gulyayev, Ivan Ivanovich (1922 – 1998)
Captain of the 2nd class I.I. Gulyayev, a commander of a submarine of the Northern Fleet, was awarded the rank of the Hero of the USSR and Order of Lenin and the medal “Gold Star” (No
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Hastie V.I. (1753-1832), architect.
Hastie Vasily Ivanovich (William) (1753-1832), architect. Native of Switzerland, in 1784 he came to Russia by invitation of C. Cameron, settling in Tsarskoye Selo on Angliiskaya Street
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Ivan Mikhailovich Yarotsky (1916 -1980)
I.M. Yarotsky was awarded the Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on September 14, 1945 for the first amphibious assault landing for the purpose of base area occupation and for a successful reconnaissance in Seisin (North Korea) occupied by the
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Karger M.K. (1903-1976), art historian, archaeologist
KARGER Mikhail Konstantinovich (1903-1976, Leningrad), historian, art historian, archaeologist, Ph.D. (Doctor of History) (1959). Graduated from Leningrad State University in 1927 and stayed on staff of the University
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Kомarov Mikhail Ivanovich (1911 – 1984)
Komarov Mikhail Ivanovich was awarded the rank of the Hero of the USSR and Order of Lenin and the medal “Gold Star” for the retaining of the bridgehead at the right bank of the River Narev. M.I
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Lieutenant General G.R. Vasmund (1810 – 1904)
G.R. Vasmund participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. He was awarded the IV Class Order of St. George. He was made the Commander of His Majesty's Life-Guards 1st Rifle Regiment in 1877
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Moskvin A. N. (1901-1961), cameraman
MOSKVIN Andrey Nikolaevich (1901, Tsarskoe Selo - 1961, Leningrad), cameraman, Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1935). Studied at the Institute of Railway Engineering. Worked with directors G. M
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Nikolay Gavrilovich Shcherbina (1919 – 1952)
N.G. Shcherbina was awarded the Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on August 22, 1944. He made 424 assault flights (including 120 night flights) and crashed 11 aircrafts in 51 air fights and destroyed 12 aircrafts on airfields.
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Old Believers
OLD BELIEVERS, a sect within the Orthodox Church consisting of those people who rejected the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the middle of the 17th century and preserved the "old" ceremonies and traditions. Old Believers began settling in St
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Rybatskoe, area
RYBATSKOE, an area to the south-east of St. Petersburg, on the left bank of the Neva River, between the Murzinka River and the Slavyanka River. In 1716, Rybnaya (Fish) settlement was founded there at the Peter the Great’s decree
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Sofia
SOFIA, the historical name of the town of Pushkin to the south of Catherine Park, between Pavlovskoe Freeway and Krasnoselskoe Freeway. It was founded in 1785 by Empress Catherine II as a chief town of the district. In 1782-88, St
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Spartak Mikhailovich Lobanov (1924 – 1998)
S.M. Lobanov was awarded the Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on October 23, 1943. Commander of Machine-Gun Troop S.M. Lobanov with a part of the troop cut across the Dnieper River south of Kiev
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The Tsarskoselskoye Brotherhood Cemetery of Heroes of the First World War of 1914-1918
A new official brotherhood cemetery of soldiers who died in the First World War was established by order of the Emperor Nikolay the Second in 1914.
The brotherhood cemetery came to be called the Cemetery of Heroes and the First Brotherhood Cemetery
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The Tsarskoye Selo Common Cemetery of World War I Heroes.
The first Common Cemetery of World War I heroes was founded in September 1914 according to the initiative of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. It occupies a plot near the Kazan Cemetery and was under the special patronage of the Empress
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Viktor Dmitrievich Kuskov (1924 – 1983)
V.D. Kuskov was awarded the Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on July 22, 1944 for courage and bravery demonstrated during performance of a special duty and for saving of the commander and the senior lieutenant from the motor boat on fire.
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Viktor Ivanovich Tikhonov (1911 – 1979)
V.I. Tikhonov was awarded the Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on March 06, 1945 for assault landing on Dago and Osel Islands and support of the base area occupation. 10 enemy ships were sunk under his command.
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