The city of Pushkin (formerly Tsarskoye Selo, until 1918) is a city in the Pushkin district of the federal city of St. Petersburg.
Until 1918, Tsarskoye Selo was the imperial country ceremonial residence.
And today, the city of Pushkin already keeps within its borders the restored palace and park ensemble of the 18th and 19th centuries and other significant sights, as well as museums that can be distinguished into a separate category of city attractions. Learn more about the sights of Pushkin with photos, descriptions and addresses...
Museums in Pushkin. Museums in Tsarskoye Selo
Catherine Park with the Catherine Palace
Catherine Park is a large park that is the dominant feature of the former Tsarskoye Selo complex, as well as one of the most picturesque and visited parks in St. Petersburg.
The name" Catherine " park was named after the Catherine Palace located in the park, named in honor of Catherine I.
The compositional center of the park's ensemble isThe Great Tsarskoye Selo (Catherine) Palace, which is a magnificent example of the Russian Baroque with luxurious interior decorations in the spirit of the Elizabethan and Catherine eras with unique works of fine and applied art.
In the palace (for a fee) you can visit the restored palace halls, as well as (for a fee) - the church of the Catherine Palace (Resurrection of Christ), located in the palace wing. In addition, temporary exhibitions are held in some halls of the palace. Learn more about the Catherine Palace…
The Catherine Palace is adjacent to the eponymousThe Catherine Park, which has an area of more than 100 hectares and which itself is an open-air museum.
The park consists of two parts: a regular Old Garden and a landscape English park.
On the territory of the Catherine Park there are: pavilions, some of which are now museums and conduct excursions, temporary exhibitions, concerts and events (Cameron's terms, Upper and Lower baths, Grotto Pavilion, Hermitage Pavilion, Hall Pavilion on the island, Admiralty, Turkish Bath Pavilion, Concert Hall pavilion, A creaking Chinese gazebo and an Evening Hall pavilion); sculptures, monuments and bridges erected in various architectural styles, as well as wharves, ponds, flower beds, alleys and walking paths with places to relax.
Entrance to the park is paid. Entrances to the park's museums, excursions, exhibitions and concerts are paid separately. Learn more about the Catherine Park…
The address of the Catherine Park and the Catherine Palace: Sadovaya Street, 7.
Duty stable with the exhibition "Court carriage in Tsarskoye Selo"
The building of the duty stable was erected in 1822-1827 according to the project of architects Vasily Petrovich Stasov and Smaragd Loginovich Shustov.
These were the emperor's own stables, located not far from the Catherine Palace with the adjacent park.
The building was damaged during the Great Patriotic War. It was later restored.
The permanent exhibition "The Court Carriage in Tsarskoye Selo" is located in the walls of the court stable today.
The exhibition presents a collection of 25 imperial carriages made by Russian and Western European masters of the 18th and 19th centuries, including ceremonial carriages, as well as pleasure and city carriages, children's carriages and sleighs, which were once items of personal imperial use.
Entrance to the museum is paid.
The address of the museum: Sadovaya Street, 8. Learn more about the stable and the exhibition...
Alexander Park with the Alexander Palace
The Alexander Park, which has an area of about 200 hectares, is adjacent to the Catherine Park and the palace. and consisting of a New garden (a regular part of the park with a geometrically correct layout) and a Landscape Park.
The main dominant feature of the park isThe Alexander Palace, which is one of the best creations of classical architecture.
The Alexander Palace (the old name of the New Tsarskoye Selo Palace) is one of the imperial palaces of Tsarskoye Selo, built in the style of Palladian classicism in 1792-1796 by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi.
The palace was built by order of Empress Catherine II as a gift for the wedding of her grandson, Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich (the future Emperor Alexander I) with Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alekseevna.
Within the walls of the palace there are: A corner living room, a hall with a slide, a Library, a State office of Nicholas II, a Moorish lavatory, a study, a Reception Room of Nicholas II, Bedrooms, a Lilac study of Alexandra Feodorovna, a Rosewood reception room of Alexandra Feodorovna, a Maple living room, etc.
In addition to the palace, there are pavilions on the territory of the Alexander Park, one of which now houses the Arsenal Museum with the exposition " Tsarskoye Selo Arsenal. The Imperial Collection of Weapons" the White Tower complex, where various classes, interactive programs, holidays and master classes for children are held; as well as monuments and bridges erected in various architectural styles; ponds, low hills, natural forest areas, alleys and paths for walking with places for recreation.
The entrance to the Alexander Park, with the exception of the entrance to the palace and the Arsenal pavilion-Museum, is free (free). Learn more about the Alexander Park and the Alexander Palace…
Military Chamber
The military Chamber is a monument of architecture of the neo-Russian style and consists of a complex of buildings, in the center of which there is a courtyard.
The military history museum "Russia in the Great War", dedicated to the participation of the Russian Empire in the First World War, is located within the walls of the military chamber.
Entrance to the museum is paid.
The address of the military chamber: Farmskaya road, 5A. Read more about the Military Chamber and the Museum with photos…
!!! All of the above objects with parks, palaces and museums belong to the State Museum-Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo".
For more information about the objects of the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve, opening hours, ticket prices, places and conditions for purchasing them and visiting the objects of the museum-reserve, we recommend checking on the website of the State Museum-Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo": tzar.ru. Learn more about the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve…
Memorial Museum-Lyceum
The Memorial Lyceum Museum is located within the walls of the former Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, where Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was educated from 1811 to 1817.
The museum recreates the atmosphere in which the lyceum students of the first edition, including Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, lived and studied.
On the basis of archival materials, the Great Hall, the Newspaper Room, the library, classrooms, some of the pupils ' bedrooms, as well as the apartment of the tutor and the drawing teacher S. G. Chirikov were restored. All these rooms can be visited in the Lyceum museum.
The address of the memorial Museum-lyceum: Sadovaya Street, 2. Read more about the memorial museum-lyceum with photos…
The Museum-dacha of A. S. Pushkin
The Pushkin Dacha Museum is a memorial museum of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
The museum is located in the former house of the widow of the court valet Anna Kitaeva, where Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin rented a dacha (8 rooms) from May 25 to mid-October 1831. Pushkin arrived in Tsarskoye Selo with his wife Natalia Nikolaevna shortly after the wedding.
Among the rooms in the museum-dacha, you can visit the dining room, living room, boudoir, bedroom and the recreated study of the poet in the mezzanine of the house.
The interiors of the rooms recreated according to the memoirs of contemporaries, as well as the materials presented in the museum's exposition tell guests about the poet's life and work.
A special section of the exhibition is dedicated to the stay in Tsarskoye Selo of N.M. Karamzin and V.A. Zhukovsky, senior contemporaries and literary mentors of Pushkin.
The address of the memorial museum-dacha of A. S. Pushkin: Pushkinskaya Street, 2/19. Read more about the Pushkin Dacha Museum…
!!! The two above-mentioned museums (the Lyceum Museum and the dacha Museum) are part of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum, which is the oldest Pushkin Museum in Russia.
Website of the museum complex "All-Russian Pushkin Museum": museumpushkin.
The main building of the Historical and Literary Museum of the city of Pushkin
The main building of the Historical and Literary Museum of the city of Pushkin was built in 1820-1822 according to the project of V. Geste, revised by V.P. Stasov, and was intended to accommodate the police with a fire tower.
Today, the museum houses permanent exhibitions and holds temporary exhibitions.
Permanent exhibitions are devoted to the history, culture and literature of Tsarskoye Selo-the city of Pushkin.
Among the permanent exhibitions: poets of the Silver Age, the cities of Pushkin and Pavlovsk during the Great Patriotic War, the history of the fire protection of Tsarskoye Selo, the Tsarskoye Selo tavern, walking around the ideal city, young scouts (scouts) in Tsarskoye Selo, education.
The address of the museum: Leontievskaya Street, 28.
Moscow Gate with expositions "Tsarskoye Selo garrison"
The Moscow Gate is a historical monument and a triumphal arch dedicated to the memory of the events of the Patriotic War of 1812 in the city of Pushkin in St. Petersburg (Tsarskoye Selo).
The Moscow Gate was erected as a Triumphal Gate in 1829-1831 by the decree of Emperor Nicholas I, according to the project of architects V. A. Glinka (gate) and A.M. Gornostaev (guardhouse) with the participation of I. Hildebrandt.
The gates were erected in memory of the glorious victories of the Russian Army in the Patriotic War of 1812 and the military company of 1812-1814.
In the guardhouses of the gate there are expositions "Tsarskoye Selo garrison", dedicated to the history of the city outpost and the Tsarskoye Selo garrison.
The Moscow Gate is located at the intersection of the Moscow Highway and Sofia Boulevard. Learn more about the Moscow Gate with expositions…
!!! The two above-mentioned museums (the main building and the exposition in the Moscow Gate) are part of the Historical and Literary Museum of the city of Pushkin.
The museum plans to restore and recreate the premises in Tolstoy's house: an office, a library, a dining room and other rooms that will house an exhibition telling about the poets and writers of Tsarskoye Selo - the Children's Village - the city of Pushkin. The house of V. I. Vuich, which was built according to the project of the architect A. F. Vidov in the 1880s and in which the writer Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy lived and worked in the 1930s.
The website of the Historical and Literary Museum of the city of Pushkin: ilmp.ru.
The Museum in the Catherine Cathedral
In the basement halls of the Cathedral of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine, there is a museum dedicated to the temples of the Tsarskoye Selo deanery, as well as telling about the construction of the Catherine Cathedral by architect Ton, the destruction and reconstruction of the shrine.
In the center of the hall there is a large artistic model of Tsarskoye Selo, as it was in the pre-revolutionary years.
The museum also has interactive exhibitions. A separate showcase is dedicated to John Kochurov , the first martyr among the clergy who suffered for his faith during the post-revolutionary events.
The Hall of Fame with portraits of priests and mayors who influenced the fate of Tsarskoye Selo completes the museum exposition.
The cathedral is located in the center of the city of Pushkin, on Cathedral Square 1.
Website of the Cathedral of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine: soborekaterina.
The Museum of the Temples of the Tsarskoye Selo Deanery in the cathedral: vk.com/pushkin_museum.
The Tsarskoye Selo Collection Museum
The museum is located in a historic Art Nouveau building with Gothic elements, built in 1909 by architect Gustav von Goli and known as the Stetkevich House (after one of the former owners).
It is the State Museum of Modern Traditional Art, which includes a collection of works of the Leningrad and Moscow post-avant-garde of the 20-90s of the 20th century, preserving the traditions of pictorial and plastic realism.
Part of the permanent exhibition is dedicated to the artists of the Arefiev circle.
The museum regularly holds exhibitions of contemporary artists.
There is a painting workshop at the museum.
The address of the museum: 40 Shopeynaya Street / 27 Leontievskaya Street.
The museum's website: museumfa.
P. P. Chistyakov House-Museum
The museum is located in a house built in 1878 by the architect A. H. Kolb. The house is now a monument of Russian wooden architecture of the late 19th century.
Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov (1832-1919), a historical painter and portrait painter, professor of the Imperial Academy of Arts, who went down in the history of the Russian art school as a mentor and teacher of the greatest masters of Russian art, lived and worked in this house.
The museum presents paintings by Chistyakov, reflecting almost all periods of the artist's work. In a small hall dedicated to Chistyakov, a teacher, the works of his pupils from the funds of the Research Museum at the Russian Academy of Arts are shown.
The museum hosts traditional musical evenings and an annual celebration of the artist's birthday on the first Sunday of July. Exhibitions of works by contemporary artists are regularly held in the Corner or Small Living Room.
The address of the museum: Moskovskoe shosse, 23.
The museum is a branch of the Museum of the Academy of Arts. Website: artsacademymuseum.
The exhibition "Anna Akhmatova Tsarskoe Selo"
The exhibition " Anna Akhmatova. Tsarskoye Selo" is located in the historical building of the former Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium-the Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium of Arts named after A. A. Akhmatova.
The exhibition area is 110 sq. m. and is made on 18 tablets and in 16 showcases.
The exhibition presents: archival copies, authentic autographs of the poet, photocopies, authentic views of Tsarskoye Selo of the late 19th-early 200th centuries, fragments of poems by Anna Akhmatova and other exhibition rarities, as well as a marble bust of Anna Akhmatova, executed by a gymnasium teacher - sculptor Maxim Viktorovich Lapachugin.
The entire exhibition demonstrates the most important stages of the biography of A. A. Akhmatova, the creative path of the poet and the place that Tsarskoye Selo occupied in her life.
The address of the exhibition: 17 Leontievskaya Street.
Exhibition website: ekspozitsiya-tsarskoe-selo.
Museum of the History of Fortification "Strongholds of Ingria"
The museum is located in the basement of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Ingria).
The museum "Strongholds of Ingria" tells about fortifications located on the territory, the original name of which is Ingria (Ingermanland), and the official name is the Leningrad Region (including St. Petersburg).
Almost all the exhibits can be touched and viewed from all sides, and some of them can be tested in practice. Some of the exhibits are quite rare. For example, the bolt from the German MG-131 aviation machine gun is in good condition.
On the walls of the second hall there are photos of fortifications made on the Karelian Isthmus. As well as maps of the main lines of defense, drawings of pillboxes and historical reference material.
The address of the museum: Embankment Street, 4.
The museum's website: vk.com/inkerifortress. Learn more about the Church of the Resurrection of Christ...
Also in Pushkin there are:
- the exhibition "Relics of the 1941-1945 War" with authentic artifacts and drawings of that time, located in a building on the corner of Lyceum Lane and Srednaya Street. Admission is free (free of charge), to the premises of the cafe/museum "Tsar's pancakes";
- exhibition of wax persons "Love and power" Russian emperors and empresses, their favorites and favorites, located in the courtyard of the same building, near The singing tower with an observation deck. Entrance is paid.
We recommend checking the opening hours of these exhibitions (since they may not always work) immediately before visiting or on the spot.
Practical information
Attention! Museums, expositions and exhibitions in Pushkin can be closed (permanently or temporarily), move or open new museums in the city. Therefore, we recommend that you check the current information before visiting the official websites of museums.
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You can visit Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin) with one of the excursions
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In Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo) you can stay
The 5-star Pevcheskaya Tower Hotel offers restaurants, a bar, a rooftop observation deck, free Wi-Fi and parking.
Breakfast is included in the room rate. Link to the hotel
The 5-star luxury spa hotel "Tsar Palace Luxury Hotel & SPA"is located in a historic building.
The hotelhas a spa center with a swimming pool, a hammam, a salt sauna, a snow fountain, steam baths and a gym; free Wi-Fi, a 24-hour front desk, 2 restaurants, a lobby bar, private parking and meeting and conference rooms.
The rooms are equipped with climate control, a mini-bar, a safe and a private bathroom.
A buffet breakfast is included in the room rate. Link to the hotel
3-star hotel Ekaterina, located on the territory of the Catherine Palace and Park Ensemble.
At the hotel: 24-hour front desk, cafe, free Wi-Fi and parking.
The rooms are equipped with: air conditioning, TV, work desk and free toiletries.
Breakfast is included in the room rate. Link to the hotel
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