5 10 73 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/89df598e932f03812ce33fa57abdf6ad.jpg e23d46dd63415abdfb26f7364290d87a Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 516 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802-1879). Mittheilungen über die Naturgeschichte des Mammuth oder Mamont (Elephas primigenius). St. Petersburg: Kaiserlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1866. Ellis Omnia C330 Description An account of the resource The Elephantine Russian Empire... Johann Friedrich Brandt, known as well by his Russian moniker Fedor Fedorovich Brandt, was a native of Saxony, educated in Berlin as zoologist, surgeon, botanist and pharmacologist. He moved to St. P. just short of his 30th birthday to head the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences, where he authored many scientific books and papers of which this department has quite a stash. Alas, the woolly mammoth is now extinct (as of ca. 10,000 years ago) but before that he was a contemporary with Lower Paleolithic humans in the second half of the Pleistocene, inhabiting Europe, northern Asia and America. At least 40 mammoths have been found in the permafrost of northern Siberia and Alaska (possibly many more now with global warming). An expedition of the Academy found the most complete specimen to date in 1901-02 (again, this record may have been bumped by now). All parts of the animal, including stomach contents, were analyzed, and the skeleton can be viewed today in the Academy's Zoological Museum. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ellis Omnia C330 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/aad954bbab131eb4db94299ba27f679b.jpg 27dc4fd24e116ca9bcf911a89d9bfc97 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 482 Bit Depth 8 Channels 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chappe d’Auteroche, abbé (1728-1769). Voyage en Sibérie. Paris: Debure, pere, 1768. 3 vols. Ellis Aves E36 Description An account of the resource "Leave Northern Siberia to the Bears," he said... Among the westerners who achieved scientific immortality for their courageous forays into the frozen parts of Russia, was a Frenchman with equal passion for both religion and science: priest and astronomer Abbé Chappe d'Auteroche. Sent out to Tobol'sk by Louis XV to observe the transit of Venus across the sun, he was later sent on a similar mission to observe Venus in Baja California, where he died of yellow fever. This wonderful three volume travelogue is filled with detailed descriptions of climate, flora, fauna, mineralogy, and the mining trade, as well as manners and customs of the inhabitants, and an astute geopolitical assessment of the areas the abbé was in, all accurately represented in engravings. Included is Chappe's translation of Krashenninikov's text on Kamtchatka and thus is one of the earliest printed accounts of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. The Voyage didn't "play" in Petersburg, however, and Catherine is said to have found much of it highly offensive and may have had a hand in the answer to it, entitled, The Antidote, a scathing treatise longer than the Voyage itself. 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Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). Zoographia rosso-asiatica Petropoli: In officina Caes. Academiae Scientarum Impress., 1831. 3 vols. Ellis Aves D424 Description An account of the resource By Nature Wise... Peter Simon Pallas was German born and studied in Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain before he came to St. Petersburg at age 26, and a year later was leading (with Falk and Delisle) an expedition as a member of the Academy of Sciences, through central Russia, the Lower Volga, the Caspian lowland, Altai, Lake Baikal, and Trans-Baikalia, collecting geographical, botanical, geological, paleontological, zoological and ethnological data. He discovered and described many new species of animals and plants, including this owl, and many animals and plants have been named after him. He was the first to depict the relationships between animals in the form of a family tree. In his Zoographia rosso-asiatica he summarized the many 18th century expeditions. Today, one of the largest ornithological collections, so important for taxonomy, morphology and zoogeography, is St. Petersburg's Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences. This volume, plus many more by Pallas, are from our own Ellis collection of natural history consisting of 15,000 bound volumes as well as pamphlets, letters, original drawings, and manuscripts, one third of which is ornithological in nature, with another third of travel literature, mostly scientific voyages and travels. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia lists 3 species of the genus Strix in the former USSR: S. alvco (tawny owl), S. uralensis (Ural owl), and S. nebulosa (Great or Lapp owl). Unless the nomenclature has changed for one of these and it wasn't really first described by Pallas, this would be a 4th species, S. barbata. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ellis Aves D424 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/6559b938595b450917c2baf4fc868117.jpg 3489964a89f96709f54af63ab7f3b741 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 562 Bit Depth 8 Channels 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Arifmetika; siriech nauka chislitelnaia. S raznykj dialektov na slavenskii iazyk prevedenaia, i voedino sobrana, i na dvie knigi razdielena. E502 Description An account of the resource Not Just Another Pretty Math Book... Peter I had a strong interest in developing a school of military engineering and in 1723 merged Moscow's school with the one founded in St. Petersburg in 1719. Equally important to the tsar was a school of mathematics and navigation. With Scottish mathematician and astronomer Henry Farquharson in charge, a syllabus was devised for the school that included arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, navigation, geodesy, and related subjects. L.F. Magnitskii manned a staff in the school that included many western scholars, Farquharson among them. Magnitskii himself had already gained fame with publication in 1703 (ours is a later edition) of his Arithmetic, written in Church Slavonic. In spite of the title and its use as a textbook of arithmetic, it was an encyclopedia of mathematics, geodesy, astronomy, and navigation; it was a literary masterpiece that was still being widely read until mid-18th century. Lomonosov called it "the fates of knowledge," and it is considered the most important Russian schoolbook of the early 18th century. 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Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Istoria usovershenstvovanii︠a︡ ul’i︠a︡. / Sostavlena chlenom Imperatorskago Volʹnago Ėkonomicheskago Obshchestva A. Pokorskim-Zhoravko. Историа усовершенствования ул’я. / Составлена членом Императорскаго Вольнаго Экономическаго Общества А. Покорским-Жоравко. Description An account of the resource Dr. Atkins' Nemesis... Forget the killer bees; what about killer honey and beebread? Diabetics both western and eastern have A.I. Prokopovich to blame for making honey more harvestable by his invention in 1814 of beehives with removable frames. In earlier times artificial hives imitating the real thing were hollow logs, or imitation hollow logs, straw hives of all shapes covered in clay, and the classic box-with-a hole, all placed strategically to get the attention of bees harvesting pollen from nearby bee-plants. This Petersburg imprint is apparently a very rare little pamphlet. In addition to this illustration of different kinds of hives, there's a plate with enlarged images of Prokopovich boxes, with cross-sections, and a lovely chromolithograph of Echium vulgare (viper's bugloss), a valuable source of beebread. There are five species of the genus Echium in the Russian Republic and beebread comes from the pollen that bees gather from it, pack into honeycomb cells and cover with honey. In these aerobic conditions is formed the absolutely necessary protein-carbohydrate food for bees, without which the development of bee colonies is retarded and honey yield greatly decreased. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C12843 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/cc4098202b71193dee40ef9585cbf751.jpg 9a421fcf0a28a9a4d0093804925fad54 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 462 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes, or, On the plurality of worlds. Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle, 1853. Description An account of the resource The Midnight Sun revolves around St. Petersburg... Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, or, On the plurality of worlds, is not a seething exposé of 18th century mystical Blakeian religious fervor as we thought it must be from the frontispiece, but an elucidation of the Copernican system. Although Fontenelle wrote poems, operas and plays, his real talent was in the sciences. He was one of the auslanders who paved the way for the scientific and philosophical ideas of the Enlightenment to gain foothold in Russia. His Russian poet counterpart, Prince Antiokh Dmitrievich Kantemir, spent time in both England and France as an envoy and translated Fontenelle's works, including this one, into Russian. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1853 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/16e3af2671a3ef318efae4d8484d0c96.jpg 2c54256f04f0b5a4fa5b1f9e91561bbf Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 451 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mémoire sur la cour de Russie et l’Etat russe. Moscow? ca. 1746. Manuscript report by an unidentified French diplomat on the persons at the Russian court and on conditions in Russia. MS C9 Description An account of the resource Diary of a Diplomat... This manuscript is a report by a high ranking but unidentified French diplomat of the men and women peopling the Russian court, and on military, economic, religious, political, and social conditions in Russia, 1745-1746. For one who would see the mid-18th century Russian court at Petersburg through French eyes, this is a grand opportunity for a research project. The first 22 chapters (of 30) form a remarkable portrait of the Empress Elizabeth (1741-1762), second daughter of Peter I and of those who played important roles in her surroundings: Russian and French counts, the ambassadors from Denmark, Hungary, England, and France. Intrigues abound. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS C9 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/bffe19523d53beadcc7b86d2f2c037bd.jpg 2895384bcc100d121e2d748606178400 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 464 Bit Depth 8 Channels 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Les plans et les statuts, des différents établissements ordonées par Sa Majesté impériale Catherine II. pour l’éducation de la jeunesse, et l’utilité générale de son empire / ecrits en langue russe par Mr. Betzky & tr. en langue françoise par Mr. Clerc. D1467, vol. 1. Description An account of the resource Peter Principle, Catherine Principle... Education in Russia, woefully inadequate until Peter's reforms, had theretofore been under the authority of the church. The secularization of thought that came to Russia from the West with the Enlightenment was nowhere more evident throughout the 18th century than in the Russian educational system. The Empress Catherine II (1762-1796) continued educational reforms, embraced the pedagogical views of such men as Rousseau and Diderot in France and others in Germany. When she appointed Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi to be Director of the Academy of Arts he drafted a general plan for the education of all young Russians, regardless of sex or social standing (he was himself a foundling). After Diderot's visit to Russia in 1773 Betskoi honed this idea further, making a distinction between the basics that no one can do without (the 3 Rs) and the skills that are based on one's station in life: an individual does need specialized training (shop), but should also have a sampling from all fields of knowledge (liberal arts). At the behest of Diderot this French edition of Betskoi's plan was published one year after the Russian original. French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet, whom Catherine commissioned to create the statue of Peter the Great that came to be known as The Bronze Horseman, found himself at odds with Betskoi on the form the statue should take. In spite of Betskoi's impressive contributions to Russian culture over his thirty-year presidency of the Academy of Arts, Falconet considered him a very conservative man of no imagination or artistic vision whatsoever. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D1467, vol. 1 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/654be10019d683f9b387cdb66b7f8dbe.jpg 4ec75f3b8a21af3d7657142f3409fb3c Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 481 Bit Depth 8 Channels 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842). Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. London: printed for R. Phillips, 1809. 2 vols. D1213, v.1 Description An account of the resource Postal in Petersburg; or, Hail-Mail. There's enough sleet, snow, and dark-of-night in St. P. in the winter to earn any postal worker an honest wage. Add to that a trek of eleven time zones. Trans-Siberian rail-mail speeds things up considerably. The difficulties of distribution of anything in as large an area as Russia in the 18th and 19th (and even the 20th and 21st) centuries has to have been overwhelming, even on a sunny day. It is said that in the old days a one-hour delay could be punishable by death, especially if military communication depended on it, and there was a need to keep those nosy western foreign dignitaries traveling in mail-coaches from having the chance to see more than they ought to, frosted windows or not. The postal system or iam, did become very speedy, but at a cost. The St. P. to Moscow route employed 13,000 iamshchiki in the 1760s. By 1843 there were 7,700 miles of gravel road, 1/3rd of those of Britain and 1/20th of what France had. Russian Butch Cassidys waylaid coaches, killed horses and pillaged goods so that thousands of horses were required yearly to keep any route going. But the route from Moscow to St. Petersburg was shortened from five weeks to one over the course of the 18th century. Robert Ker Porter was one of the brothers of English novelist Jane Porter. Invited by the Tsar to Russia in 1804, he married a Russian princess and after a stint in Venezuela as British consul returned to Russia where he died in St. Petersburg. The Department of Special Collections has a large collection of the Porter family papers. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D1213 vol. 1 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/df1cbdaad85183e8a85a2c78a4b7d117.jpg ef7de4afb7a1de7a625e5a92745253fd Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 700 Height 587 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frosted Windows Description An account of the resource Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An English Lady: An anonymous manuscript travel-diary, a detailed account of the sights, costumes, social services, village and town life, war aftermath, travel mishaps in Russia and Poland.  MS B144 Description An account of the resource Notes From Underground... If you're interested in matters Polish and Russian or in travels in Slavic lands and in sights seen through western eyes AND if you can read this page from the manuscript diary of an Englishwoman traveling in the summer of 1828 (175 years ago!) then YOU may be the person to transcribe the contents of this little volume. You will get to know "Roberta" and "Mr. Sayer" (their real names), who were her companions on the trip. We can picture Ms. English Lady settling into the pension at night to write ... Inside the front cover she begins, "The weight of the statue of Peter The Great ..." You've seen the blurb; now read the book! Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies">http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/library-use-and-policies</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS B144