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1790

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Chronicle of three centuries/1776 - 1800

January. Ceremonial entry of Prince G.A. Potiomkin-Tavrichesky through the Gatchina (Orlov) Gates of Tsarskoye Selo after the capture of Ochakov and liberation of Moldovia from Turkey. The inscription from A. Petrov's ode "You go into the Cathedral of St. Sophia with applauses" was placed on the splendid decorated gates, according to the order of Catherine II.

A.N. Radishchev published work "A Journey from St. Peresburg to Moscow" having the chapter devoted to the first stop on the author route from the northern capital, the post office station at Sophia Uyezd Town.

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Catherine II, Empress
Petrov, A.
Potemkin Grigory Alexandrovich, Gracious Prince of Tauride
Radishchev Alexander Nikolaevich