The building of the Tsarskoye Selo Military Hospital (Sophia post office)

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture
Constructing of a four-storied stone Post Office with stables and sheds in the town of Sophia was made in 1784 to the design of Ch. Cameron. In 1805-1806 it was rebuilt according to L. Rusca’s project under the direction of the brick-master D.Visconti. In 1837-1840 the former Post Office rebuilt for needs of the Tsarskoye Selo local hospital of the second class for three hundred patients of lower rank, fifteen doctors and eighty eight people of service personnel. A small public garden with tall trees was laid out on the square in front of the hospital. A landscape garden and service yard with many wings, spread up to Furazhnaya Street, was made inside the yard. At the corner with Gostotalnaya (Hospital) Street there was the stone chapel of the St. Nicholas the Miraclemaker. On Christmas holidays Nicholas II usually visited this hospital and the marshal department delivered Christmas fir-trees and presents for soldiers and officers been in the hospital on behalf of the Emperor. Presents was given by Grand Duchesses come with the Emperor. The School of Lower aircraft crew (ShMAS) was placed here after 1917. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Cameron Charles
Nicholas II, Emperor
Rusca Luigi (Aloisy Ivanovich)
Viskonti David Ivanovich
Parkovaya Street/Pushkin, town