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Gatchina

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Leningrad Oblast, Russia
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About Gatchina

Gatchina is a city and the administrative center of Gatchinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is placed 45 kilometers south of St. Petersburg, along the E95 toll road leading to Pskov. Gatchina is the most important city in Leningrad Oblast, and is great called the vicinity of the Great Gatchina Palace, one of the important houses of the Russian Imperial Family in the course of the 18th and 19th centuries. Gatchina is regularly positioned high in high-quality of existence scores in Russia, and the ancient middle and Gatchina Palace are a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site's Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.
Gatchina become first documented in 1499 under the call Khotchino as a village in ownership of the Novgorod Republic. In the 17th century it became exceeded to Livonia and then to Sweden in a chain of wars, until the early years of the Great Northern War at the flip of the 1700s whilst the place changed into again to Russia. In 1703, Gatchina determined itself inside the southern region of the brand new Russian capital, Saint Petersburg, which become being constructed 45 kilometers north at the mouth of the Neva River. Despite technically nonetheless belonging to Swedish Ingria, in 1708, Gatchina become given with the aid of Peter the Great to his sister, Natalya Alexeyevna, and after her demise in 1716 Peter founded an Imperial Hospital and Apothecary there. In 1765, it became the belongings of Count Orlov.

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