ABSTRACT
The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the need to develop a modern program for the development of the St. Petersburg agglomeration for the next 15-20 years (up to the 2030s), considering the identification of historical and genetic features of its origin and formation. The specific purpose of the article was to study the regularities of the crystallization of the largest fragment of the agglomeration of these territories, which most closely unite the largest and brightest suburban imperial palace and park ensembles: Tsarskoe Selo, Gatchina, Pavlovsk. The main research approach is a comprehensive landscape, functional, urban planning analysis based on archival and historical-cartographic materials. The most obvious conclusions were about the sequence (in several stages) of the creation of the unity of the imperial palace and park ensembles in the Tsarskoye Selo zone, their accompanying cities, belts of manor and dacha settlements, “garden cities” connected by a dense network of paths and water pipes. And if in the initial period, under Peter I, industrial objects prevailed here, then later objects of a palace and park character became dominant. This spatial-landscape and historical-cultural unity allows us to formulate proposals for declaring the territories of Tsarskoye Selo itself and the Pavlovsk - Gatchina - Krasny Selo zone as a single object of cultural heritage.
