[St. Petersburg – Leningrad]
A retrospective look at Leningrad during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Description
This beautiful bird’s eye view shows the Russian city of St. Petersburg at about 1914, when it was known as Petrograd. Just a few years after the depicted date, Vladimir Lenin would lead a group of insurrectionists to storm the Winter Palace, igniting the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Russian Civil War. After Lenin’s death in 1924, the city would again be renamed to Leningrad, a name it would possess until reverting to St. Petersburg after a local referendum in 1991.
The image was originally designed by the Alexey Ilyin Cartographic Institute in 1914 but was reproduced here in 1990 by the State Museum of the History of Leningrad. The timing is notable, as the Soviet Union was in complete disarray at the time of publication. The imperial legacy of St. Petersburg is on full display, with nearly 170 different buildings illustrated and labeled in the text below.
Source: Leningrad Becomes St. Petersburg
Map Details
Publication Date: 1990
Author: V.E. Kornilov
Sheet Width (in): 26.25
Sheet Height (in):
Condition: B
Condition Description: Moderate creasing along old fold lines and faint damp staining in the center left and lower right. Two spots of abrasion has resulted in minor image loss in the lower center section of the image. About good condition overall.
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