Gatchina, a town of Russia, 30 miles by rail SSW. of St Petersburg. It has some manufactures of porcelain, and several barracks, but is especially worthy of mention for its royal palace, surrounded by one of the finest pleasure-gardens in Europe, which was the favourite summer seat of the Emperor Paul I., and the winter residence—practically, owing to precautions against Nihilists, the prison—of Alexander III. Pop. (1880) 10,063.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 112
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