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Plan of Preobrazhensky Regiment’s sloboda (settlement).
[SPb., 1740].
1 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper,
watercolour, Indian ink. 696,8?480,9 mm. Russian and German.
Graphic scale in sazhens. East-oriented.
Decoration:
The title and explication are in unfolded roll, with “slight
tears” along the edges.
Territory:
The Saint-Petersburg’s suburb by the Liteiny District.
Shown:
The territory for quartering Preobrazhensky Regiment east from
Liteynaya Street. The places designated for parades, market and
artillery yard are marked with signs. Latin capital letters from
A to N show: the regiment court, houses of officers, hospital,
stores, workshops, smithy, German church, big and small “water
reservoirs”, “state palace by the reservoirs”,
cannon-founder settlements and artillery barracks. Dotted lines
mark the designed structures (from O to R): two stores, bombardier
and grenadier shop, “house for the family of Her Majesty”.
Annotation:
Project drawing of Preobrazhensky Regiment’s settlement.
Beginning from 1739 the commanders and staffs of regiments of
the Life Guards were entitled to determining the place of regiment
quartering, projecting the regiment settlements and construction.
The places of regiment settlements including the place of Preobrazhensky
Regiment settlement “behind Liteynaya Street” were
determined by the B.-Ch. Minich’s report approved by Anna
Ioannovna on 27 of March (7 of April) 1740. To the end of 1740s
such a type of “regiment quartering” construction
would be model in the Russian capital.
Literature:
Bogdanov A.I.
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