A Mirror of the World: Five Centuries of Geographical Atlases
[Map of Ingermanland, 1727]
Siyu novuyu Idostovernuyu vsei Ingermanlandii lant Kartu obderzhashchuyu обдержащую vsebe Gorody Kreposti slobody zavody myzy derevni melnitsy reki ozera ichast'Zaliva finskago iozera Laduzhskogo takozhde Ladozhskoi i inyia kanaly iperspektivnyia dorogi iprotchaya, yazhe vse sobrano oseleniyakh dorogakh ikanalach ponovomu v 1726 godu opisaniyu uchinennomu chrez rosiiskikh Geodezistov areki iozera slant karty pechatnoi sankt. peter burkh 1727 iyunya d.29. ...Kirilov. Grydoroval Aleksey rostovtsev. [St.-Petersburg: Synodal printing house], 1727.
1 pl. 44.5х55.5 cm (52.6х71.7 cm)
Copperplate engraving. Hand-Coloured.
Scale: [1:400000].
Engraver Alexei Rostovtsev
It is a map of the area covering Yamburg, Kaporye, and Shlisselburg districts. The map shows borders of districts and their subdivisions (pogosty), populated places, factories, mills, broad roads to Moscow and Saarskaja Myza (Tsarskoye Selo), the St. Alexander Nevsky Monastery, breweries, the carpenters' settlement in the environs of St.-Petersburg, canals, islands in the delta of the Neva River, "seaside houses" along the south coast of the Gulf of Finland, Dubki palaces, the quarry near the Tosna River, Osinovaya Roshcha vacant lands and "empty pub" nearby them, tav[erns?] along the road to Moscow, the swamp in the upper reaches of the Sestra River, shoals and sandbanks.
There are the index where figures indicate names of the islands in the delta of the Neva River (1-13). The text contains I.Kirilov's dedication to Peter II, elements of the content of the map, sources used for compiling the map. A drawing of a view of Saint Petersburg (a copy from the work by Pieter Pickaerdt the Atlas of the Baltic Sea /Kniga rozmernaya Ost-Zee/ from 1723) is located at the top left; above is a portrait of Peter II framed by olive branches and surrounded by allegorical figures, wearing crowns and holding round shields with monograms. A decorative cartouche in the top right hand corner shows a view of Shlisselburg with the inscription "Schlutel Burg", allegorical figures, military attributes. A decorative cartouche in the bottom right hand corner has the coat of arms of the Russian Empire topped with the crown, Cupids, Tritons, one of them with a sounding lead, a depiction of the first wooden fortress in the Gulf of Finland Kronslot. At the bottom left is the coat of arms of Ingermanland supported by infants, and a river god depicted as an old man with an urn, holding a trident.
From: [Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1731]
Atlas Vserossiiskoi Imperii v kotorom eya tsarstva, gubernii, provintsii, uezdy i granitsy skol'ko vozmogli rossiiskiya geodezisty opisat' onye v landkarty polozhit' po dline i shirote tochno iz''yavlyautsya i goroda, prigorody, monastyri, slobody, derevni, zavody, mel'nitsy, reki, morya, ozera, znatnye gory, lesa, bolota, bol'shiya dorogi i protchaya so vsyakim prilezhaniem izsledovannye rossiiskimi i latinskimi imenami podpisany imeyutsya trudom i tshchaniem Ivana Kirilova. Ves' sei Atlas rezdelen budet v tri toma i budet soderzhat' v sebe vsekh na vse 360 kart, ezheli vremya i sluchai vse onyya sobrat' i grydorom napechatat' dopustit. Dliny zachal svoe priemlyut ot pervago meridiana chrez ostrova Dagdan i Ezel' provedennogo, konchayutsya zhe v zemle Kamchatke tak chto Imperiya Rossiiskaya bolee 130 gradusov prostiraetsya kotorykh ves' zemnoi globus 360 v sebe soderzhit. St.-Petersburg: [St.-Petersburg printing house, 1731]
1 vol. (10 pl.) 54х37 cm.
Copperplate engraving. Hand-Coloured.
In Russian and Latin.
Shelfmark: К 1-Росс 8/4
It is the first atlas of Russia, created on the basis of materials from the systematic topographic instrumental survey of the whole state begun by order of Peter the Great in 1720. Ivan Kirilov managed Russia's first astrogeodetic and cartographic work and himself produced several maps; he was also the initiator and organizer of the compilation of the atlas, and its publisher.
The work was left unfinished for some reasons, just thirty five maps were made, of which seven are lost. The maps include a lot of information pertaining to the country's phisical geography, administrative and political matters, while the texts provide a certain amount of economic information.
The maps are decorated with decorative cartouches. In spite of the fact that the atlas contains many inaccuracies, it has great historical and geographical value as a memorial of the early years of Russian research cartography.
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