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Selo
Imperial residence in Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia

Selo

Tsarskoye Selo was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the center of Saint Petersburg.

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The residence now forms part of the town of Pushkin. Tsarskoye Selo is part of the World Heritage Site of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.

Get in

Getting to Selo

Local trains run from St. Petersburg's Vitebskiy station (not the main hall, but the smaller hall for local trains to the right and around the corner as you face the main hall) to the Tsarskoye Selo station in Pushkin. A round-trip train ticket costs 72 руб, and trains run at 15-20 minute intervals starting at 6:00am until midnight except: - Leaving St.

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    Tsarskoye Selo
See

Worth seeing

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    Catherine Palace

    The sight is really breathtaking, especially during the winter, with the snow covering the magnificent park.

  2. 02
    Alexander Palace

    The final residence of the Russian royal family before they were overthrown in the revolutions of 1917.

  3. 03
    House-museum of Pavel Chistyakov

    Art museum dedicated to the imperial painter Pavel Chistyakov (1832-1919), known for historical and genre scenes as well as portraits.

  4. 04
    History and Literary Museum of Pushkin
Eat

Where to eat

The Catherine Palace has a rather expensive cafe inside near the cloak rooms. A clean, reasonably-priced restaurant called "Italian Pizza" with a variety of good food - from pizza to hamburgers to salads to sushi - is located in the square in front of the train station. Facing the station, it is in the building to one's left; enter through the basement stairs. Open 11:00am until after midnight.

How locals move

Getting around Selo the local way

Share-taxi routes mapped nearby
  • К-688 Маршрутное такси № 688: ст. метро Купчино => Никольское"
  • К-100 Маршрутное такси № 100: станция метро Московская" - Гатчина, Варшавский Вокзал" · ООО Транс-Балт""
  • К-688 Маршрутное такси № 688: Никольское => ст. метро Купчино" · ООО Такси""

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Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.