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Plan of the town of Nye(n)stadt.
This plan is from … Swedish map. Copied by student Mikhail
Kovrin in 1749 July 10.
1 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper, Indian ink, watercolour.
270?450 mm. German and Russian.
Scale [1:12 600], graphic scale in Swedish miles. North-north-west-oriented.
Decoration:
The title and explication are on a flying banner. The scale and
explanations are on an unfolded roll, a sailing vessel in the
area of water of Gulf of Finland.
Territory:
The Neva mouth , the town of Nyen with its outskirts.
Shown:
Dense road network (continuos line with dotted line), plenty of
meadows, ploughed fields in the east part of the territory, on
the north of the Vasilievsky (Basil) Island. Settlements, estates
are rendered as small houses. In the town of Nyen a church with
cemetery is marked. Coastal sand-bars in the Neva R. and Gulf
of Finland are dotted. There are no inscriptions on the map, numerals
and letters only; the explication is here as well. The letters
mark: Nye(n)stadt, a round powder tower, squares, commandant’s
garden, town park, redoubt and new designed redoubts, “which
can defend all the field”, artillery house, water reservoirs,
workshop, a hunting place for bringing to bay, North and South
fairways and so on. The numerals mark: state highroads to Dubky,
Vyborg, Karelia, cart-tracks, fishing and hunting places, lighthouses,
sand shore, “the place for cannon shooting” and so
on.
Annotation:
The copy, worked out by student Mikhail Kovrin in 1749, from the
original 1698 drawing by fortification lieutenant A. Kroniorth.
The 1737 copy from the Kroniorth’s drawing by student Schwartz
is more known.
Literature:
Gnutcheva V.F.
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