Another interesting piece in the ASM collection –
“Axonometric plan of St. Petersburg 1765-1773 ”, which went down in history by the names of its creators – “Plan P. de Saint-Hilaire, I. Sokolov, A. Gorikhvostov”.
This unique work of national cartography of the XVIII century, which has no analogues in the world, is an attempt – the only one of its kind – to fix in the form of axonometry the image of St. Petersburg as a whole, in the form in which the city was formed by the middle of the 60s of the XVIII century.
Detailed axonometric plans of St. Petersburg are of exceptional interest both for a researcher and for a person interested in the history of the city and its development. They give a complete picture of its creation, the gradual change of its borders and appearance over the centuries.