Sergievo platform. From Baltic Station to Strelna - 9. Sights and a bit of history.
Sightseeing Timeline:
00:44 Sergievo Station Building, 19th century (under conservation). Architect N.L. Benois, built 1855-1857, in the Russian style.
04:39 Chapel at the Station (built 1905). This chapel, built in the Russian style of the 17th century, was erected near the Sergievskaya Pustyn railway station.
06:35 School No. 414 (4 Rossiysky Boulevard). The building was constructed in 1954 according to the design of A.A. Afonchenko in the Stalinist neoclassical style.
07:38 The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Primorsky Hermitage (Troitse-St. Sergius Hermitage) is a monastery (hermitage) of the St. Petersburg Diocese, located in the village of Strelna, now within the city limits of St. Petersburg. Founded in 1735, it held the status of a first-class monastery until 1918. From 1819 to 1834, it was under the jurisdiction of the St. Petersburg vicars—the Bishops of Revel.
19:45 The German bunker Dl-6 in Shungerovsky Forest Park. Flooded.
21:01 The Museum of Interesting Thoughts "House with an Airplane," or Andrey Karzubov's steampunk exhibition, is an art space that will captivate both adults and children.
Sergievo (Volodarsky from 1918 to 2016) is a historic district of St. Petersburg, located within the boundaries of today's Krasnoselsky District.
The village of Sergievo derives its name from the nearby Primorsky Holy Trinity St. Sergius Hermitage. The monastery, dedicated to St. Sergius of Radonezh, was founded near the Gulf of Finland in the second quarter of the 18th century. Before the Revolution, pilgrims to the monastery began their journey at the Sergievo railway platform. A horse-drawn railway operated from the station to the monastery along what is now Budyonny Avenue (then Monastyrsky Avenue). In 1918, the village of Sergievo was merged with the village of Aleksandrovo. The new settlement was named in honor of Volodarsky, a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Commissar for Press, Propaganda, and Agitation, a member of the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP(b), a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, an agitator, and the founder of Krasnaya Gazeta, who was murdered by the Socialist Revolutionaries.
In 1963, the village was incorporated into the Leningrad city limits (Kirovsky District). In 1973, it was transferred to the newly formed Krasnoselsky District.
In 2010, after repeated appeals from the local Orthodox community of the Church of the Holy Martyr Andrew of Crete, the Volodarskaya railway platform was renamed Sergievo.
On November 29, 2016, the name Sergievo was finally restored to Volodarsky. Before this, the Sergievskoye option was optional and not the primary one.
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