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Alexandrov has been 

always famous for its 

outstanding people.

The Grand Duke Basil III was the founder of 

Alexandrovskaya Sloboda.  

 At the beginning of the XVIth century he ordered to 

build here a magnificent palace made of white stone 

and red brick.

Basil III visited his country 

residence in Alexandrovskaya 

Sloboda very often. He received 

here foreign ambassadors!

The first Russian tsar Ivan the 

Terrible made 

Alexandrovskaya Sloboda no 

more than the capital of the 

Russian state, the rival of 

Moscow! He had been living 

here for seventeen years!

 Ivan the Terrible loved the 

place and would have never 

left it if he had not killed his 

favourite son and heir Ivan 

in Sloboda.

Alexey Mikhailovich 

Romanov visited 

Alexandrovskaya 

Sloboda many times. 

He founded a convent 

there and made a lot 

of large donations.

 Alexey Romanov's son 

Peter the Great didn't 

forget about the place.

 On the 15th of 

September 1689 the 

Great tsar Peter I 

with his mother 

Natalia Kirillovna and 

his first wife Evdokiya 

Fyodorovna and with 

his court visited 

Alexandrovskaya 

Sloboda during his 

"funny" march.

In 1727 Peter's 

daughter Elizabeth 

was forced to go to 

Alexandrovskaya 

Sloboda. She had 

been here for ten 

years.

 Elizabeth Petrovna 

became a godmother to a 

lot of new-borns in 

Sloboda. From here she 

went to Moscow to take 

the throne.

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