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Plan of Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment soldier sloboda (settlement)
with outskirts, worked out in 1740 in Saint-Petersburg.
1 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper,
Indian ink, watercolour. 660?450 mm. German.
Graphic scale in Russian sazhens. South-oriented.
Decoration:
The title is in Gothic type, the explication is in unfolded roll,
graphic scale on a marble plate.
Territory:
The southern area of Saint-Petersburg’s outskirts.
Shown:
The highroads (“Perspectiva from the military post to Yekaterinhof”,
“Sarskaya Perspectiva”, parallel to it “Izmailovskaya
Perspectiva”); the rivers Fontanka, Chiornaya (Black), Glukhaya;
Ligovsky Canal, Finnish village by the confluence of Chiornaya
R. into Fontanka. The structures of Izmailovsky Regiment settlement
with its nearest outskirts are marked with Latin letters, decoded
in the explication: soldier barracks, officer houses, regiment
office, armoury, treasury, church, hospital, stable, smithies,
moorage, parade-ground, accoutrements depot, powder-magazine.
Suburban estates along the Fontanka; Marine settlements of Big
and Small Colomnas along Sadovaya Street, Kalinkina village, a
part of Life Guards Semionovsky Regiment settlement.
Annotation: The
project general plan of Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment settlement
was worked out by the project approved in 1740 at the meeting
of the staffs of Life Guards regiments. This decision was approved
by the empress on 2 (13) of May 1740.
Literature:
Bogdanov A.I.
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