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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
1453 Through the Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) The Time of Troubles to the First Romanovs (1598-1682) Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682-1762) The Age of Catherine the Great (1762-1801) The Reign of Emperor Alexander I (1801-1825)

                                     

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 Napoleonic Europe, ca. 1812
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 Depicting St. Petersburg, 1806


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Aleksandr Dmitrievich Savinkov (fl. 1792–1835)
Plan stolichnago goroda St. Peterburga [Plan of the Capital City of St. Petersburg]
[St. Petersburg, 1806?]
NYPL, Map Division

Russian and French indexes to this map note over 400 buildings and political divisions in the capital city. Cultivated land can be seen at the bottom, adjacent to canals built to drain swamplands. Rather like Amsterdam, the city appears to grow outward in rings, through a system of canals. The title cartouche is decorated with emblems of the arts and learning, and of military science, and is topped off by the double-eagle crest of Alexander I.