Cathedrale of Saint Isaac at St. Petersbourg – Antique Print
![Cathedrale of Saint Isaac at St. Petersbourg, [between 1859 and 1878] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/21/2151a4901d28-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Cathedrale of Saint Isaac at St. Petersbourg, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cathedrale of Saint Isaac at St. Petersbourg
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Captioned in French as the "Cathedrale of Saint Isaac at St. Petersbourg," this salted paper print shows the church that Auguste de Montferrand designed and that was consecrated in 1858, after roughly four decades of construction. Its gilded dome and granite columns made it one of the most recognizable landmarks of the Russian imperial capital, and the photograph dates from the years just after it was finished. The print is kept in an album assembled by Benjamin Brown French, a Washington official and collector whose photographs record places and people from the mid-nineteenth century.
| Created / published | [between 1859 and 1878] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 40 x 25 cm. |
| Notes | In album: Benjamin Brown French Photographs |
| Subjects | Isaakievskii sobor (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Cathedrals--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg--1850-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 957 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158021 |
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