hidden Gatchina Palace -and - Park ensemble, the The Gatchina Palace -and - Park ensemble. It is an architectural sight and garden-and -park monument of the 18-19th centuries of federal importance. The ensemble is included in the State Palace-and-Park and Art-and-Historic Culture Preserve... 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 Ropsha palace-and-park ensemble The Ropsha palace-and-park ensemble (the settlement of Ropsha, the Lomonosov District). It is a building of architectural and historic interest and landscape architecture art of the 18th century. It is one of palace-and-park ensembles that were... more

hidden The Church of the Annunciation of the Mother of God (Ropsha Village, Lomonosov District) The Church of the Annunciation of the Mother of God (Ropsha Village, the Lomonosov District). According to some information the original Dimitrovskaya (?) church in a cemetery (on Knyazhye Gorka) was laid in 1500. During the period of the Sweden... more