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1906-1914

Set thirty four years after Peter the Great's capture of the Swedish fortress and only twenty five years after becoming the capital of Imperial Russia, this 1737 map outlines the foundations of what will become the cosmopolitan jewel of what is the…

1906-1914

In Alexander Keith Johnson's map of Saint Petersburg, the perspective of the city takes an alternative view, with the city itself placed on the periphery as it shows its spacial location as compared to the great cities and nations of the Baltic

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or SDUK, published a series of nation, region, and city maps for an affordable educational alternative for English readers. W.B. Clarke's 1834 map of Saint Petersburg is one of 51 cities produced in…