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Plan of the city of St. Petersburg, [Russia]. The imperial residence, 1801 – Antique Print

Plan of the city of St. Petersburg, [Russia]. The imperial residence, 1801, 1801 — antique engraving
Plan of the city of St. Petersburg, [Russia]. The imperial residence, 1801, 1801. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: Plan of the city of St. Petersburg, [Russia]. The imperial residence, 1801, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Plan of the city of St. Petersburg, [Russia]. The imperial residence, 1801

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This 1801 engraved plan singles out the imperial residence, marking the seat of the court within the city's layout. Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg in 1703 on the marshy delta of the Neva River, and it served as Russia's capital from 1712 until 1918. The map was issued as an illustration in Heinrich Storch's *Picture of Petersburg*, a descriptive survey of the city from that year, which makes it a useful view of how the capital was presented at the close of the eighteenth century.

Created / published1801
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Storch, Picture of Petersburg, 1801. Reference copy may be available in Geog. File (Graphics) - Russia--St. P. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Maps--Russia--; Russia...; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,409 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142428

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