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Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834). Historical sketch of Moscow: illustrated by twelve views of different parts of that imperial city, the Kremlin, &c. London: R. Ackermann, 1813. E1675
The Big Pomegranate ... We toyed with idea of calling this exhibition "St. Petersburg: The Second City," not only because of Moscow's historical firstness, but also because its architecture and art looks like nothing else, anywhere else; it embodies…
William Alexander 1767-1816). The costume of the Russian empire illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings; with descriptions in English and French. London: printed for William Miller by Howlett and Brimmer, 1803. E18
Blue Boy... Although this volume of plates is attributed in the British Museum Catalogue to William Alexander, nowadays it is usually cataloged under the name of the artist, E. Harding. It has a complicated bibliography: the plates were apparently…
Novyĭ rossīĭsko-frant︠s︡uzsko-ni︠e︡met︠s︡kīĭ slovarʹ, sochinennyĭ po slovari︠u︡ Rossīĭskoĭ akademīi Ivanom Geĭmom / izhdivenïem Khr. Klaudïi︠a︡ = Nouveau dictionnaire russe-françois & allemand / composé d’après le dictionnaire de l’Académie russe par Jean Heym ; aux dépens de Christophe Claudi, D1621.
My Big Fat Russian-French-German Dictionary
Heinrich Friedrich von Storch (1766-1835). The picture of Petersburg. London: printed for T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1801. C12325
Picture of more than a thousand words... Storch's Picture of Petersburg, 1792, set a standard for European accounts of the city and is still quoted today. Storch says, "One of the most important phenomena of this period [the 18th century] is without…
Charles Colville Frankland (1797-1876). Narrative of a visit to the courts of Russia and Sweden, in the years 1830 and 1831. London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832. 2 vols. C9056
Location, Location... One can see from looking at a map that the piece of real estate Peter chose on which to plant a city might have been an ideal gate for trade from West to East and East to West for centuries. But most maps don't show what a…
Diagram of space station, 1973. WSFC8a
We've Come a Long Way, Baba. Leningrad, aiming as it was to be a new place in a new time with a new government and society was a natural for the ferment of a literature of science fiction. Strongly influenced by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, 20th…
E. de Taskine. L’industrie houillère dans le basin du Donetz. St. Petersbourg, 1900. Howey C2112
Coals From Newcastle. Near the end of the 18th century the English replaced the French in Peterborough as the ethnic group to imitate. The English were fewer than the Germans and French and they were almost non-existent in the provinces, that is to…