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Akhmatova A.A. (1889-1966), poet

AKHMATOVA Anna Andreevna (nee Gorenko) (1889-1966), poet, Honorary Doctor of Oxford University (1965). She spent her childhood (until 1905) in Tsarskoe Selo (the corner of Shirokaya Street and Bezymyanny Lane

1845-1847

Architect N.S. Nikitin constructed the office building of the Chief Manager of the Palace Board, according to the design by D.E. Efimov. During 1865-1866 architect A.F. Vidov accomodated this building for the gymnasium
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1893

The Gorenkos' family with children Andrei, Inna, Irina and Anna (the future poet A.A. Akhmatova) settled in the house of Shukhardina in Shirokaya
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1900

The palm hothouse designed by the architect A. Bach was constructed behind the Manege building and later it was transferring into Saint Petersburg, near the Taurida Palace. Architect A
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1907

10 March. The meeting of Nicholas II with Prime Minister P.A. Stolypin after his speech in the Second State Duma meeting on 3 March, where Prime Minister's famous words sounded: "They want great shocks, we want great Russia"
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1910

6 February. Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilyov, the father of the poet N.S. Gumilyov, a naval doctor, died in the house of Georgiyevsky in Bulvarnaya Street. He was burried in Kuzminskoye Cemetery in Tsarskoye Selo. June
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1912

11 January. The memorial plaque with the inscription "The Emperor Lyceum Was Placed in This Building from 1811 untill 1843" was opened on the building of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum by the 100th anniversary of its founding
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1914

17 January. In the Alexander Palace, Crown Prince of Serbia Alexander was received. 3 February. In the Alexander Palace, Nicholas II received Maurice Paleologue, the new French ambassador, and all members of the French Embassy. 24 June
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1915

2 January. The train collision took place at the railway line linked Peterburg and Tsarskoye Selo. Anna Vyrubova, a maid of honour and close friend of the Empress, was seriosly injured at this disaster. A
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1916

13 February. At the house of the literary critic and A.Akhmatova's true friend N.V. Nedobrovo Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova presented her "treasured black ring" to the artist Boris Anrep who was the addresse of many poems written by A. Akhmatova
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1921

The Aircraft Workshops started to work again then it was transformed into the Aircraft Maintenance Plant, the ancestor of the Aircraft Maintenance Plant No.20 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation which has been being untill now
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1925

The spring. A.A. Akhmatova, O.E. and N.Ya. Mandelshtam lived in the boarding house of Zaitsev in Detskoye Selo where they were visited by Pavel Luknitsky collecting materials about N.S. Gumilyov
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1944

13 January. Igor Rybakov, a fearless member of an underground organization, graduate of the secondary school of Pushkin Town, was executed by firing squard in Gatchina. 16 January
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1989

8 June. The Divine Liturgy was performed in the Cathedral of St. Sophia, the first church given to the Russian Orthodox Church after stopping the policy of theomachy in Russia. By 2009 eight Orthodox churches have been opened in the town
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

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Altman N.I. (1889-1970), artist

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Annenkov Y.P. (1889-1974), artist

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Annensky I.F. (1855-1909), poet and teacher

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Aranovich S.D., (1934-1996), film director

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Arts, The House of, literary society

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Chukovskaya L.K. (1907-1996), writer

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Ginzburg L.Y. (1902-1990), Historian of Literature

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Gumilev L.N., (1912-1992), historian

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Hollerbach E. F. (1892-1942), Art Historian

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Ivanov G.V. (1894-1958), poet

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Klyuev N.A. (1887-1937), poet

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Komorovskoe Cemetery

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Lenina Street

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Lourie A.S. (1892-1966), composer

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Nappelbaum M.S.(1869-1958), photographer

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Panteleev L. (1908-1989), writer

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Punin N.N., (1888-1953), art historian

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The Mariinsky Woman Gymnasium.

The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

Tyrsa N.A., (1887-1942), artist

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Zhirmunsky V.M., (1891-1971), philologist

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