The nursery slide of the young Tsar Alexei, at Alexander Palace in Tsarkoye Selo, a summer residence of the Romanovs and the family's last real shelter from the revolutionary storms that would consume them.
The Bolsheviks renamed the city Detskoye Selo (Children's Village) in 1918, but I don't think they made any new playgrounds for the children they presumed to honor.
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