New Town, New Townspeople: Transforming Gatchina in the 1790s
On 11 November 1796, only five days after the death of Catherine II, her son and successor Paul released a decree naming two of his villages, Pavlovsk and Gatchina, towns. In an odd way, given their fraught relationship, this act echoed his mother’s past practice. She founded several hundred new tow...
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Illinois Open Publishing Network
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Вивліоѳика |
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| Online Access: | https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/vivliofika/article/view/537 |