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 Gross, George Fyodorovich (1824 - 1877), an architect Gross, George Fyodorovich (1824 - 1877), an architect, academician of architecture from 1858. Gross was certified by the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1853. He served as the architect of the Palace Department. He rebuilt the building the Court... more

hidden Kuzmin, Roman Ivanovich (1811 - 1867), an architect Roman Ivanovich Kuzmin (1811 - 1867), an architect, teacher. R.I. Kuzmin graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1832, in 1840 he became an academician, in 1841 he became a professor of architecture and teacher of the Academy of Arts.... more

hidden Priorate Palace, the The Priorate Palace (the town of Gatchina, the Priorate Park) is the unique rammed-earth construction in sham Gothic style (1797-99, the architect N.A. Lvov), it is inseparably linked with the landscape of Black Lake and the Priorate Park. The... more