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      Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk in one day

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 8 km + 🚆🚌🍽 3📍 9 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      Two imperial residences: the Amber Room, the Lyceum and the largest landscape park.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Vitebsky Station
      Загородный пр., 52
      Start: the station’s Art Nouveau
      🚆 by suburban train to Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
      train from Vitebsk to Tsarskoye Selo (~30 min): 08:04, 08:26, 09:04, 09:41, 10:00 (at weekends also 10:34, 11:29); to the lyceum ~25 min on foot or by bus
      1. 1
        🖼 Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
        Садовая ул., 2, Пушкин
        🎟 ticket
        A wing of the Catherine Palace where Pushkin studied: the library, the assembly hall and the lyceum students' rooms.
        Pushkin’s classroom
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        Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Lyceum opened on 19 October 1811 — graduates later celebrated this day as “Lyceum Day”.
        • At first it was also meant to teach Alexander I's younger brothers, Nicholas and Michael.
        • The wing was built in the 1790s for Paul I's daughters, and in 1811 Vasily Stasov rebuilt it as the Lyceum.
        • The curriculum was drawn up by Mikhail Speransky; boys aged 10–14 were admitted and studied for six years.
        • Pushkin's classmates included Gorchakov, Küchelbecker and Pushchin.
        • In 1843 the Lyceum was moved to Petersburg, to Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, and named the Alexander Lyceum.
        • The memorial museum opened in 1949, when the neighbouring Kustov Lane was renamed Litseisky (Lyceum) Lane.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 Catherine Palace (Amber Room)
        Садовая ул., 7, Пушкин
        🚪 entrance through the Church Gates
        🎟 ticket
        Better to book tickets online in advance
        The Amber Room — tickets online
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        Catherine Palace (Amber Room)
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Catherine Palace (Amber Room)
        © Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was founded in 1717 for Catherine I — at first it was a two-storey house “of 16 chambers” designed by Braunstein.
        • Rastrelli gave it its present look in 1752–1756; the palace is 325 m long.
        • More than 100 kg of gold went into gilding the facade and the statues on the roof.
        • Catherine II called the palace an old-fashioned “whipped cream” and stopped the overly expensive gilding of the statues in the park.
        • The Amber Cabinet was given to Peter I by the Prussian king Frederick William I in 1716; it was moved to Tsarskoye Selo in 1755.
        • In the war the Amber Room's decor was taken to Königsberg and its fate is unknown; the recreated room opened in 2003.
        • Cameron's Lyons Hall, closed on 22 June 1941, was reopened to visitors in 2019.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🌳 Catherine Park
        Пушкин
        🎟 ticket · In the cold season entry to the park is usually free
        A huge park by the Catherine Palace with a formal section, ponds, pavilions and bridges.
        The Cameron Gallery
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        Catherine Park
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Catherine Park
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Catherine Park
        © Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0
        • Under the Swedes this was the Saari manor; in 1710 Peter gave it to Marta Skavronskaya — the future Catherine I.
        • The park is divided into the formal Old Garden and the landscape English Park.
        • The architect Charles Cameron finished the Cameron Gallery for Catherine II's walks in March 1787.
        • In the Agate Rooms of the Cold Bath Catherine II sorted through documents and wrote letters in the mornings.
        • The Hermitage pavilion (1744–1754) stands on an artificial island surrounded by water.
        • The Chesme Column in the middle of the Great Pond was erected in 1771–1776 to a design by Antonio Rinaldi in honour of the Chesme victory.
        • The town of Pushkin was occupied on 18 September 1941, and the park reopened to visitors as early as summer 1945.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🍽 Admiralty restaurant
        Екатерининский парк, павильон «Адмиралтейство», Пушкин
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        Lunch by the Great Pond
        🍴 A Gutsait Group restaurant in the brick Admiralty pavilion on the shore of the Great Pond: Russian and European cuisine, a grill and a summer veranda. What to order: Finnish-style fish soup, draniki, lamb cutlets with cherry sauce, lamb shank.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        🌳 Alexander Palace and Park
        Пушкин
        🎟 partly ticketed · The park is free; the palace is ticketed
        Quarenghi's classical palace with a colonnade and a landscape park with ponds and quiet paths.
        Nicholas II’s last home
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        Alexander Palace and Park
        © Игорь Гордеев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Alexander Palace and Park
        © Игорь Гордеев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Alexander Palace and Park
        © Игорь Гордеев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was built in 1792–1796: Catherine II gave it to her grandson, the future Alexander I, for his wedding.
        • Nicholas II was born in Tsarskoye Selo, and after 1905 made the Alexander Palace his main residence.
        • After the February Revolution Nicholas II's family was held under arrest in the palace.
        • The palace became a museum as early as 1918, with an exhibition of the Romanovs' living rooms in the right wing.
        • During the occupation of 1941–1944 the palace housed a German headquarters and the Gestapo, with a prison in the cellars.
        • From 1951 the building was occupied by the Naval Department; it was returned to the Tsarskoye Selo museum-reserve only in 2009.
        • The 37.8-metre White Tower in the park was built in 1821–1827 to a design by Menelas for the sons of the future Nicholas I.
        • The park preserves a cemetery of the emperors' “own saddle” horses, from Alexander I to Nicholas II.
      10. 🚌 bus 370 or 383, minibus K-545 or K-286 from Pushkin to Pavlovsk (15–20 min, every 15–30 min); or train Tsarskoye Selo → Pavlovsk, 6 min
      11. 6
        🖼 Pavlovsk Palace
        Садовая ул., 20, Павловск
        🎟 ticket
        A classical palace on a hill above the Slavyanka river, surrounded by one of the largest landscape parks in Europe.
        Paul I’s residence and the landscape park; check the stop by the palace on Yandex Maps
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        Pavlovsk Palace
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pavlovsk Palace
        © Игорь Гордеев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pavlovsk Palace
        © Игорь Гордеев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was founded on 25 May 1782 to a design by Charles Cameron for Grand Duke Paul Petrovich and Maria Feodorovna.
        • Cameron, Brenna, Quarenghi, Voronikhin and Rossi all worked on the palace — each left his own halls.
        • The dome over the central Italian Hall is ringed by 64 columns.
        • On 10 January 1803 a fire broke out in the palace that lasted more than a day; the interiors were restored by Voronikhin.
        • In 1944 the retreating troops burned the palace, but the curator Anna Zelenova managed to evacuate and hide part of the collections.
        • The postwar restoration lasted until 1970; of the palace's more than 300 rooms, 45 are open to visitors.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🌳 Pavlovsk Park
        Павловск
        🎟 ticket
        Squirrels eat from your hand — bring nuts
        Squirrels and the Temple of Friendship
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        Pavlovsk Park
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pavlovsk Park
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pavlovsk Park
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park's history began on 12 December 1777, when Catherine II gave her son Paul lands on the banks of the Slavyanka.
        • The park covers about 600 ha and is divided into seven districts, from the Slavyanka Valley to the White Birch.
        • The Temple of Friendship (1780–1782, Cameron) was conceived by the grand-ducal couple as a gift in return to Catherine II for the Pavlovsk lands.
        • The Apollo Colonnade was built in 1782–1783; in 1817 part of it collapsed in a thunderstorm, and it was decided not to restore the ruin.
        • The 250-ha White Birch woodland was created in 1801–1828 by the decorative artist Pietro Gonzaga.
        • The Pil Tower of 1797 was deliberately made to look like a ramshackle village house with a thatched roof.
      14. 🚶 on foot
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        ☕️ Slavyanka café in Pavlovsk Park
        Павловский парк, Садовая ул., 20Д, Павловск
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        An afternoon snack at the park exit
        🍴 A park-service café on Gulyaniy Square by the Nikolaevsky (Cast-Iron) Gate of Pavlovsk Park: a grill, hot dishes, pastries and coffee. What to order: chicken or pork-neck shashlik, grilled flatbread, apple pie, mulled wine.
      16. 🚆 train from Pavlovsk to Vitebsk (~40 min): 17:26, 17:59, 18:55, 19:28, 20:25 or 21:03; from the station to Nevsky is ~15 min by metro
      17. 9
        🍽 Palkin restaurant
        Невский пр., 47
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        Dinner in the city
        🍴 A restaurant on the site of the famous Palkin tavern (founded in 1785): pre-revolutionary Russian cuisine with theatrical presentation and a historic interior. What to order: sterlet in white wine, day-old shchi, Olivier salad, the “Anna Pavlova” cake.

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