18th century plan of St Petersburg

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Plan of St Petersburg With It's Fortifications Built by Peter The Great in 1703. [with] The Harbour of Crownslot; Riva Neva; Canal made from the said River to the R. Wolschowa.
London, 1749. 190 x 245mm.

Two maps on one sheet: a plan of St Petersburg after Homann's map of 1724; and a plan of the Old Ladoga Canal, opened in 1731, linking the Volkhov River and the Neva (thus St Petersburg and Gulf of Finland) while bypassing the dangerous Lake Ladoga.


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