Online camera Pushkin. Krasnoselskoe highway, Sapernaya street (Leningrad region).
Pushkin is a famous city of magnificent palaces and picturesque parks. Emperors and empresses lived at the summer residences of Tsarskoye Selo. Alexander Pushkin studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and later rented a summer cottage nearby.
In the parks walked Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Karamzin, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilev, the science fiction writer Alexander Belyaev. Films were and are filmed in Pushkin - from the Soviet "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson" and "Truffaldino of Bergamo" to the new series "Salvation Union. A Time of Rage."
The area where the Catherine Palace is now located was called "Saari Mois" in the 18th century - translated from Finnish as "elevated place, manor". Over time, the name was Russified, it became "Sarskaya manor", and since this place lived the empresses - "Tsarskaya. Until 1917 the city was called Tsarskoye Selo.
After the revolution, the palace and the houses of the court were given to schools, gardens, sanatoriums and hospitals, the city became a children's village. And in 1937 it acquired its modern name - Pushkin. Then celebrated the centennial of the poet's death, and the city was named after him.
