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navigation, search   Tsarskoye Selo (Russian: Ца́рское Село́,
IPA: [ˈt͡sarskəjɪ sʲɪˈlo] ( ); "Tsar's Village") was the town
containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and
visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the
center of Saint Petersburg.[1] It is now part of the town of
Pushkin and of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and
Related Groups of Monuments. During the Soviet times it was
known as Detskoye Selo.   In the 17th century, the estate
belonged to a Swedish noble. Its original Finnish name is
usually translated as "a higher ground". Max Vasmer, on the
other hand, derives this toponym from the Finnish word for
island, "saari": "Saaren kylä" = "Island village". In any case,
the Finnish name came to be pronounced by the 18th-century
Russians as "Sarskoye Selo", later changed to "Tsarskoye Selo"
(i.e., "the royal village").[citation needed]  In 1708, Peter
the Great gave the estate to his wife, the f