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Riding Mountain (roller Coaster)
The Riding Mountain (, ''katalnaya gora'', ''katalnaya gorka'') was the name of two entertainment pavilions built in 1754–1757 in Tsarskoye Selo and in 1762–1774 in Oranienbaum royal residences of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. They had several sliding slopes attached and in summer time they were among the earliest roller coasters. Passengers would ride cars on wheels locked in tracks. The Tsarskoye Selo pavilion was designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli,Agata PietrzakChopin na rollercoasterze/ref> the Oranienbaum one by Antonio Rinaldi. Both of the rides were engineered by Russian scientist Andrey Nartov. Tsarskoye Selo The "Grand Slide" () pavilion, as Rastrelli called it, was a huge stone building in the shape of a rotunda near the Catherine Palace. By the sides of the central eight-sided grotto of the rotunda there were gaming and dining halls. The whole building was richly decorated with antique-style sculptures and Baroque ornaments. At the second f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsarskoye Selo
Tsarskoye Selo (, , ) was the town containing a former residence of the Russian House of Romanov, imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the center of Saint Petersburg. The residence now forms part of the Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, town of Pushkin. Tsarskoye Selo forms one of the World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments, Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. The town bore the name Tsarskoye Selo until 1918. The new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia renamed it as Detskoye Selo (), which it held from 1918–1937. At that time, it was renamed under Josef Stalin, Stalin's government as Pushkin () after Alexander Pushkin, the famous Russian poet and writer. It is still known by that name. History The area of Tsarskoye Selo, once part of Swedish Ingria, first became a Russian royal/imperial residence in the early 18th century as an estate of the Empress-consort Catherine (later Empress-regnant as Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
