Tsarskoe selo or Pushkin? Both names still apply to one of St. Petersburg’s most famous imperial villages. The summer home of the Romanov tsars for centuries Tsarskoye Selo or the Royal Village was renamed Pushkin following the communist revolution in honour of one of its other well-known residents, the poet Alexander Pushkin.
Getting there:
By bus: From Moskovskaya metro station: marshrutka 286, 287, 342, 347, 545. From Kupchino metro station: marshrutka 286, 287, 347a, 545a, public bus 186.
By train: From Vitebsky train station take a train to Detskoe Selo.