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1797

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

G.R.Derzhavin wrote the nostalgia poem "Ruins" in which the favorite residence of Catherine II at Tsarskoye Selo, which was florished in the time of Catherine II, was described in the allegorical form.

At the Belozerka grange, near the Malinovskaya Dacha", on 252 desyatines (about 260 hectares), the Practical Agriculture School, first in Russia, was opened and A.A. Samborsky, archpriest and the senior priest of the Cathedral of St. Sophia, was the organizer of this school. School worked until 1803.

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Derzhavin Gavriil Romanovich
Samborsky Andrey Afanasievich