Mariinskaya Women's Gymnasium

Firstly in the building of the Gymnasium was the Office of the Chief Executive of the palace boards and Tsarskoe Selo. It was the project of architect D.E. Efimov. The construction was headed by N.S. Nikitin. The Office was abolished in 1865. The same year in the building was founded a female gymnasium Firstly it was but was a wooden house on Moscovskaya Street. The redevelopment was conducted by the architect A. F. Vidov, and a year later the gymnasium moved to a new building. In 1874 there was a necessity to expand building space for a new seven-grade gymnasium. In the years 1874-1875 works were conducted by A.F. Vidov. Next time the building was redeveloped in 1906-1907. It was expanded by building up the third floor. The work on the project of the architect G. D. Grima was carried out by civil engineer V. A. Lipavsky. The future poetess A. A. Akhmatova (Gorenko) studied in the gymnasium during the period 1900-1905.

After the October Revolution, the gymnasium became the 2nd Detskoselskaya Soviet labor school. In it in 1922–1924 years. studied Daniil Kharms (Yuvachev). Subsequently, the building housed a music school, now the Tsarskoye Selo Academy of Arts named after Akhmatova. In 2010 a new gymnasium building was added.[3][4]

The original finish of the Efimov project was preserved on the facade of the first floor, includes a ribbon rust, fan-shaped castle stones. In general, the repeatedly changing facade is an integral composition, in the center of which are elongated semicircular windows of the third floor. The building is completed by the attic.[3][4]

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