Residence of Russian emperors in Tsarskoye Selo

The present-day city of Pushkin was called Tsarskoye Selo from its foundation in 1710 and until 1918. Despite the fact that there was the residence of Russian emperors, the name of the city is not connected to the tsars. A hundred years earlier those lands belonged to the Swedes and a small estate there was called Saritsa, then Sarskaya Mysa (estate) and later Saarskoye Selo that easily transformed into Tsarskoye.

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