DYETSKOYE SELO (Detskoe Selo), a town in north Rus sia, formerly Tsarskoye Selo, IS m. south of Leningrad in lat. S9° 43' N.. long. 3o° 24' E., on the Duderhof Hills. Pop. (1926) 19, 284. When Peter the Great took the mouth of the Neva river, a Finnish village, Saarimois, stood on the site now occupied by the town and its Russified name, Sarskaya, was changed into Tsarskoye Selo (The Tsar's Village) when Peter presented it to his wife, Catherine. It was later arranged as a summer abode by the Tsaritsas Elizabeth and Catherine II. and was subsequently used as such by the Imperial family. As a court residence, the town was the earliest Russian town to be supplied with the con veniences of modern civilization. The first Russian railway, built in 1837-8, connected it with Leningrad, and in 1887, it was lighted by electricity, the first town on the European continent to be so lighted. It also has the best system of water supply and sanitation in Russia, and on account of its cleanness, its good sanitation and dry climate, it is a health resort. In 1917 the Tsar Nicholas II. and his family were imprisoned here from March to August, when they were transferred to Tobolsk. Under the Soviet government the former palaces and villas have been turned into museums, schools, hospitals and sanatoria for children. Its present name means Children's Village and has been given to it because in summer it is practically a children's colony. The cathedral of St. Catherine, built by Thon in 184o, is a miniature copy of that at Constantinople. The former imperial park, now the Dyetskoye Selo park, covers 1,68o acres. In it is the "old palace," built in 1724 by Rastrelli, and gorgeously decorated with mother-of-pearl, marble, amber, lapis lazuli, silver and gold, the gallery of Cameron, adorned with fine statues and entrance gates, numerous pavilions and kiosks, and a bronze statue of the poet Pushkin, who was a scholar at the Lyceum. A second palace, the Alexander, was built by Catherine II. 1792-96, and designed by Guarenghi. The Chinese village, bridge and theatre were designed as a result of the interest in China taken by Catherine II. Behind the north wall of the park is the Feder ovsky Gorodok (Fedor town), built for the Tsar's family 1914-17 by the architect Prestchinsky in old Russian style, and now con trolled by the Institute of Agronomy. The Fedor Cathedral was built by Pokrovsky in 1912 in the Pskov-Novgorod style. For a full description of the town, see "Guide to the Soviet Union" (Moscow, 1925; in English) . The town is now named Pushkin.