Horse cemetery and pension stables in Tsarskoye Selo

The royal family loved animals, probably more than that.
ordinary people of Russia. In the XIX century in Tsarskoye Selo on the orders of Nicholas I built The so-called Pensioner stables are a shelter for valiant horses. living out their lives. Now the stables are destroyed, but the only one left is There are 122 graves under the mighty tombstones.

The idea of the unparalleled memorial complex of the Pensioner stable did not develop immediately and, to a certain extent, accidentally.

The solemn ceremony of the funeral of Emperor Alexander I was attended by two personal royal pensioners - the merina Tolstoy Orlovskaya and the mare Atalanta. The horses received their pensions for their participation in the war. Both of them visited Paris twice. After the death of Alexander, the care of the "veterans" was taken over by Nicholas who came to the throne. Horses were taken care of in retirement stables. When they died, they were buried in the cemetery.

In the horse cemetery rests the remains of the horse Alexander I, nicknamed
Lamy, on it the emperor entered Paris after the victory in the Patriotic War. 1812; Flora, whose back was worn by Emperor Nicholas I; Koba, on Tsar Alexander III inspected the troops. On the graves of horses There are marble slabs with memorial inscriptions. First. In the twentieth century, the cemetery was abandoned. Civil and Great. The war did not bring a cemetery characteristic of such events. destruction. But after the war in Soviet times it was destroyed. The marble slabs were piled up and plundered over time. And only in the 90s of the twentieth century there was a question of recreating a unique monument. 1998 - 2000 Over the years, excavations of the cemetery at the Pensioner stables began. The names of the buried horses were clarified, the confusion in the location of their tombstones was corrected. Thus, work is underway to restore the tombstones and return them to their place.