1930

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Chronicle of three centuries/1926 - 1950
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First"), "Chernoye zoloto" ("the Black Gold"), the trilogy of novels "Khozhdeniye po mukam", consisting of "Sestry" (“Sisters”), "Vosemnadtsaty god" (“The Year 1918”), and "Khmuroe utro" (“A Gloomy Morning”), wrote the story "Gobelen Marii-Antuanetti" ("The Tapestry of Marie-Antoinette"), the tale "Zolotoy Klyuchik" ("The Golden key"), the libretto for Yu. Shaporin's opera "Dekabristi" ("Decembrists"), started the work on "Oborona Tsaritsina" ("The Defence of Tsaritsin"). He lived and worked here untill his departure to Moscow in 1938.

The house of A.N. Tolstoy, the centre of the cultural life of Detskoye Selo of the 1930s, was visited by writers V.A. Rozhdestvensky, V.M. Inber, V.Ya. Shishkiv, O.D. Forsh, I.A. Andronikov, L.V. Nikulin, B.A. Lavrenev, M.M. Zoshchenko, the literary critic P.Ye. Shchegolev, artists G.S. Ulanova, Ye.I. Time, V.I. Kachalov, N.V. Pevtsov, M.F. Monakhov, the painter K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, composers Yu.A. Shaporin, V.M. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, D.D. Shostakovich, conductors A.V. Gauk, A.Sh. Melik-Pashayev, scientists A.F. Ioffe, A.M. Bonch-Bruyevich, L.D. Landau.

During 1933-1934 A.N. Tolstoy was a deputy of the Detskoye Selo District Soviet, his articles were often published on pages of the district newspaper "Bolshevistskoye slovo" ("Bolsheviks' Word").

Repairing excavators was mastered in the Stream Locomotive Repair Base named after Uritsky (PPRMZ) under the direction of the talented engineer Vladimir Ivanovich Shkvokhin, who became the director of plants "Remputmash" of the Ministry of Transport. Andronnikov Irakly Luarsabovich
Bogdanov-Berezovsky Valerian Mikhailovich
Bonch-Bruevich Mikhail Alexandrovich
Forsh Olga Dmitrievna
Gauk Alexander Vasilievich
Inber Vera Mikhailovna
Ioffe Abram Fedorovich
Kachalov (the real surname is Shverubovich), Vasily Ivanovich
Landau Lev Davydovich
Lavrenev Boris Andreevich
Melik-Pashayev, Aleksandr Shamilyevich
Monakhov Nikolay Fedorovich
Nikulin Lev Veniaminovich
Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich
Pevtsov Illarion Nikolaevich
Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Alexandrovich
Shaporin Yury Alexandrovich
Shchegolev Pavel Eliseevich
Shishkov Alexander Semenovich
Shkvokhin, Vladimir Ivanovich
Shostakovich Dmitry Dmitrievich
Time Elizaveta Ivanovna
Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich
Ulanova Galina Sergeevna
Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
Tserkovnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 6