1817

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9 June. The first Lyceum graduates ("Pushkinsky") was held and the song "Farewell song of the pupils of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum" , text was written by Anton Delvig and music by the Lyceum music teacher Tepper de Fergusson, was performed.

The triumphal gate "To my dear comrades" was erected according to the design by V.P. Stasov, this gate celebrated the victory of Russian Army over Napoleon.


Major General Y.V. Zakharzhevsky became the Head of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace Board, independent of the Hof-Intendant Office. Thanks to his work, Tsarskoye Selo took the reputation of the one of the most comfortable city of the Russian Empire of the middle of the 19th cent. Zakharzhevsky worked at this post until 1865, his post was renamed as Chief Manager of Tsarskoye Selo.

18 October. The Cathedral of St. Sophia got the status of the Regiment Temple of the Life-Guard Hussar Regiment. Delwig Anton Antonovich
Stasov Vasily Petrovich
Tepper de Ferguson (Fergusson), Ludwig - Wilhelm
Zakharzhevsky, Ya.V.
St. Sofia Cathedral at Tsarskoe Selo