hidden Gatchina town cemetery, the The Gatchina yown cemetery (the town of Gatchina, Solodukhin Street). The first town cemetery founded at the Gatchina Posad in the second half of the 18th century, was not intacted. It was located in the town boundaries, and in 1849 the decision... more

hidden Gatchina Town Museum of the Local History, the The Gatchina Town Museum of the Local History was founded in 1967. Till 1978 it was placed in the Priorate Palace halls. Materials on Gatchina Town history, about the town architectural sights, about the development of aviation, events of World... more

hidden Gatchina, town GATCHINA (Trotsk in 1923-27, Krasnogvardeisk in 1927-44), a town in Leningrad Oblast, adm. center of Gatchina District. Population: 82,900 (the largest town in the Leningrad Oblast.) First mentioned in the Novgorod scribe roll of 1499 -1500 as... more

hidden Historic-memorial Museum-Estate of P.E. Shcherbov, the The historic and memorial museum - estate of P.E. Shcherbov (Gatchina Town, 4 Chekhov Street) was founded on 10 April 1992. The museum was placed in the artest-caricaturist P.E. Shcherbov's former estate which is one of the best memorials of the... more

hidden Krichinsky, Stepan Samoylovich (1874 -1923), an architect Stepan Samoylovich Krichinsky (1874 -1923), an architect. In 1897 Krichinsky graduated from the Civil Engineers Institute in St. Petersburg. From 1900 he was an architect, then chief architect of the Board of the Frontier Troops Separate Corps. He... more

hidden Shcherbov, Pavel Yegorovich (1866-1938), an artist SHCHERBOV, Pavel Yegorovich (1866 – 1938, Gatchina Town), a graphic artist and caricaturist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (1885-86). In his sharp satiric drawings and watercolours he depicted literary and art life in St.Petersburg in the... more