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Drawing of the Residence City and Fortress St-Petersburg. It’s
mentioned what was built in 1721 and how the plan was improved
up to its final construction, all the islands, islets and suburbs
in the most accurate way were surveyed and all the situation is
researched in the most exact way according to the drawing which
was handed to His Majesty … on 8 of March 1722.
2 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper,
Indian ink, watercolour. 756,7?935, 763,1?935 mm. Swedish.
Scale [1:12 600], graphic scale in Russian sazhens (famnar). North-north-east-oriented.
Decoration:
the title is in a frame with an eagle. The explication and graphic
scale is on a wall.
Territory:
City of Saint-Petersburg and its outskirts.
Shown:
Saint-Petersburg streets and blocks of buildings constructed,
outskirts; verdure with colour. Latin letters mark administrative
districts of Petersburg in 1718. Decoding in the explication.
Construction data. Stone buildings with red, wooden ones with
green. Under the explication is the signature: Carl Frederik Coÿet.
Annotation:
A unique plan in Saint-Petersburg planography. The city’s
plan is in the project versions with dates not later than 1720,
denied and never realized. But many then existing or being constructed
buildings are not shown or shown obviously inaccurate. These are
military and industrial objects: shipyards, shops, factories,
regiment settlements. The data in the title and explication about
reality and accuracy of the shown constructed and designed buildings
and territories is unusual information. The former prisoner C.
Coÿet, who served in St-Petersburg and after the Niestadt
peace treaty was let to go to his native land, handed the plan
to the Swedish king in March 1722. Convincing is the supposition
that the plan was worked out for Sweden intentionally and under
the Russian authorities’ control. The plan has the obvious
features of both a foreign-policy demarch and misinformation action.
Literature:
Sementsov S.V. (1997), Jangfeldt B.
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