Plany S. Peterburga v 1700, 1705, 1725, 1738, 1756, 1777, 1799, 1840 и 1849 godakh, s prilozheniem planov 13 chastei stolitsy 1853 goda.

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inscribed presentation copy An excellent example of of this extremely rare work on St Petersburg, inscribed to Secretary of State Vladimir Ivanovich Panaev. It was compiled by the noted cartographer and statesman, Major-General Nikolai Ivanovich Tsylov who became famous for his address books and the topographical atlases of Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo. In 1849, under the orders of the Chief of police, Tsylov published the first street atlas of the city with a section on each of the thirteen districts. The present work includes the plans for each of the thirteen districts along with indexes detailing the palaces, street names and churches of each section. This edition is supplemented with five tinted lithographs, portraits of the Tsar and Peter the Great as well as 8 additional plans (the 1849 edition only having one general plan of the city for that year). Tyslov had consulted the city's archives and libraries to create plans starting from 1700, tracking how the boggy delta of the Neva was transformed into an established European capital of marble and stone. It's fascinating to see how the buildings and canals built up over the previous 150 years, spreading over the Vasilyevsky and Petrogradsky islands. Tsylov's publications were printed in very small editions, possibly by subscription and had already become bibliographical rarities by the turn of the 20th century. The inscription from Tsylov to Panaev suggests that the two worked together and is wonderfully familiar f

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