Ligovo

Ligovo (Russian: Лигово), known as Uritsk in Soviet times, is a historical area of the federal city of Saint Petersburg (Russia).

[citation needed] Since then, Ligovo has been a court manor, an exemplary farm, a town, and a battleground during World War II.

The settlement is shown on Swedish maps of the 15th century as "Liihala" or "Liihankulla" (i.e., Liihankylä) (kylä means village in Finnish).

[1] For over 1,000 years, the East Slavs have lived peacefully along the Neva River and in areas on the southern coast of Gulf of Finland alongside the less numerous Baltic Finns.

From the 12th century, these territories were part of the sizeable feudal state of the North-west of Russia — Lord of Great Novgorod (Russian: Господин Великий Новгород).

[2] Many prominent people visited Logovo during this period: By the middle of the 18th century, the farm was extended to include an orchard.

The mill dam was near the Peterhofskoye shosse, and the small river has spread, having formed a pond stretched to a modern line of the railway (approximately 1,7 kilometres).

[1] In 1765, Russian empress Catherine II also built Gatchina Grange and House Kurakinikh, and presented the village to the Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (along with Kipen, Shchungurovo, Ropsha); she often visited him here.

For the account affinity of Ligovo to Saint Petersburg and the convenience of the message, it became more active in building constant summer residences.

As soon as the Saint Petersburg streets will be cleared of snow ..., from different directions Saint Petersburg — in spite of neither on a cold, nor on absence of the correct summer message with summer residences — chains of carts with furniture and different House stuff will be pulled in a direction for a city.

[1] In the beginning of the 20th century in area was the Lutheranism centre — to ligovsky arrival colonies of Buksgevden and Panovo concerned.

Now the territory of Ligovo is a part of Uritsk Municipal Okrug Mathilde Kschessinska was the only Polish prima ballerina assoluta in the world.

The famous Russian ballerina of the late 19th and early 20th century Anna Pavlova was born in Ligovo.