Imperial name restored for train station
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has reinstated the imperial name of a train station outside Saint Petersburg that is used by tens of thousands of tourists visiting the former palaces of the tsars, state media said yesterday.
Medvedev ordered the train station to use its original name of “Tsarskoe Selo” (Tsar’s Village), which it lost almost a century ago in 1918 shortly after the Bolshevik revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty, according to a government decree.
Since 1918, the station had been known as “Detskoe Selo” (Children’s Village), a more neutral name as the Communists wanted to steer clear of anything that could glorify the deposed tsars.
The station is the stop-off point for tourists who visit the spectacular imperial palaces and park in the adjacent town, which is one of Russia’s top tourist sites.
The town’s name also had a complex history — previously known also as Tsarskoe Selo, it was also renamed as Detskoe Selo after the revolution. In 1937, the town was again renamed Pushkin after Russia’s national poet although the train station kept the name Detskoe Selo.
The station’s name change will be a relief for tourists wanting to visit Tsarskoe Selo and bewildered by the lack of any station bearing its name.
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