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- Pushkin - formerly Tsarskoye Selo, or the
- Czar's Village - was the home of the Imperial
- family from the days of Peter the Great right up
- to the time of the last Czar. Next to the parks
- and palaces stands the town developed mainly
- in the 19th century as a summer resort for the
- aristocracy and well-to-do of St. Petersburg. In
- 1837 the first railway line in Russia was built
- here, linking St. Petersburg with Tsarskoye
- Selo. Pushkin is about 25 km. (15 miles) from
- central St. Petersburg, this time travelling south.
- Train service is from the |Vitebsky railway station|Custom1|W:217|
- or by bus.
- Pushkin is quite different from |Petrodvorets|Custom1|O:240| and
- |Lomonosov|Custom1|O:238|. Here, there are no massed
- fountains and no vistas over the sea. Here you
- are very much inland, in beautiful English-style
- parks, unrestrained by the geometrical formality
- of Russian Versailles. The palaces again bear
- the stamp of the Baroque days of the Empress
- Elizabeth, the paramount example of which is
- the Catherine (Yekaterininsky) Palace built by
- Empress and named after her mother,
- Catherine I, Peter's second wife. The palace
- rose on the site of previous royal residences,
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