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The Moscow Gate

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/The Pantheon of military glory/Monuments dedicated to important events of the military history of Russia of the XVII - XIX centuries

The gate symbolizes the victory of the Russian army in the wars against Turkey and Persia in 1828-1830. This Empire style gate built in 1831 was designed by Russian architect V.M. Gornostayev. The railing was made according to an architect Glinka’s drawing.
According to famous art historian V.Y. Kurbatov the gate is “military styled like Paris outposts of the late 18th century”.
The gate consists of two equal corps de gardes and a cast iron gate. Tridimensional cast iron Russian national emblems are at the top of two pillars. The emblems were made at K. Grayson’s factory in St. Petersburg according to an architect V.A. Glinka’s drawing.
A road connecting Tsarskoye Selo and Moscow ran through the Moscow Gate. Only those who had “a need and a right” could walk along that road. A funeral procession from Taganrog with the remains of Alexander I walked through the gate on February 28, 1826.