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Plan consisting of … the fenced in barracks for convicts
by the Admiralty’s Harbour, for officers and soldiers as
well. [SPb.], 23 of June 1766.
1 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper,
Indian ink, watercolour. 456,1?590,7 mm. Russian.
Graphic scale in Russian sazhens.
Decoration:
The title and explication are in an unfolded roll at the left
top, graphic scale is in a small unfolded roll.
Shown:
The hard labour court (convict prison), where all convicts and
a guard of them were placed, and the nearest territory. All buildings
are marked with capital letters, the explication is in a table
at the top. It’s mentioned here that the territory of the
barracks for the convicts and guard is two feet higher than surroundings.
But every spring and autumn it had to be lifted two feet more
on account of the flood. 6 barracks for convicts, a bathhouse
and a “small water reservoir in case of accidence”
are enclosed with fence, the officer guardroom and the barracks
for soldiers out of the fence.
Annotation:
From the first years of existence of St-Petersburg and the Baltic
Fleet they used to place a marine settlement of officers and sailors,
a settlement of the regiment attached to the fleet and a hard
labour court by the Galernaya (Galley) Harbour. E.g. such a hard
labour court was placed by the Galernaya Island. Later (from 1738
to 1740), it was transferred to Vasilievsky (Basil) Island to
the area of Galernaya Harbour.
Literature:
Bogdanov A.I.
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