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Road map or chorographic delineation of Saint-Petersburg’s
location. 1726.
1 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper,
Indian ink, watercolour. 880x2 200 mm. Swedish.
Scale [1: 26 040]. Graphic scale in Swedish famnars. North-oriented.
Decoration:
Rendering of Kronslot Fortress.
Territory:
From the east Saint-Petersburg outskirts to the west end of Retusaari
Island, south shore of the Gulf of Finland.
Shown:
Karelia (Carelen), Ingermanland, its pogosts, New and Old fairways,
Saint-Petersburg and Kronstadt with harbours and fortifications,
the town of Nyen, Nyenskans Fortress. On the map there are many
letters and numerals: Neva delta islands and administrative parts
of the city are marked with the capital Latin letters, the separate
buildings and blocks of the city -- with numerals, the depths
along the fairways of Gulf of Finland and Neva in feet. The roads
are traced, administrative borders are marked. In St-Petersburg
and its nearest outskirts the built up blocks and separate buildings
and constructions, parks, fortresses, lanes, canals, harbour,
meadows and ploughed fields, buildings being projected (dotted),
fortress walls, bastions, swamped places, verdure are shown. The
additional portrayal is given: plan, profile and facade of Kronslot
Fortress, with explication.
Annotation:
The unique 1726 plan of St-Petersburg and its outskirts. St-Petersburg,
Nyen and Nyenskans at the same time are shown, that is untypical
thing for drawings of that time.
Literature:
Sementsov S.V. (1999), Ehrensvärd U.
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