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Facade and plan of an officer house for two persons, built on
the Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment sloboda (settlement) square
in St-Petersburg in 1742.
1 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper,
watercolour, Indian ink. 666,2?448,1 mm. German.
Graphic scale in Russian sazhens.
Decoration:
The title and explication are in unfolded rolls.
Shown:
An officer house -- a one-storey building doubled for dwelling
of two officers, with high roof, with separate auxiliary wings,
inside the yard is a garden or kitchen-garden. There are suites
of rooms in the dwelling house and in the wings, a gallery in
the dwelling house as well. According to requirements the floor’s
level is higher than the possible flood’s level. Entrances
to the yards with decorative elements. Latin letters in the explication
show: the house facade (A), a space in front of the house (B),
room of officers (C), entrance-halls (D), drawing-rooms (E), kitchens
(F), cellars (G), carriage places (H), stables (I), staircases
(K), yards (L), kitchen-gardens (M).
Annotation:
The construction of Life Guards regiment settlements was begun
from 1740. The projects of regiment settlements were worked out
and approved by the regiment staffs. The most important element
of a regiment settlement was the officer houses. This is a model
project of doubled officer house for two persons (for two officer
families).
Literature:
Bogdanov A.I.
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