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St Isaac's Square in St. Petersburg, Russia is a major city square sprawling between Marie Palace and St. Isaac's Cathedral, which separates it from Decembrists Square. The square is dominated by the equestrian Monument to Nicholas I.

This photochrom from the 1890s displays a view of the square from the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral towards Marie Palace. Behind the palace, the capital of the Russian Empire is seen all they way to the Trinity Cathedral.

Photochrome is a colorizing process combining photography and color lithography. It was especially popular in the 1890s, when the technique was used to create a color print from a black and white photo negative, using between four and fourteen lithograph stones, made from rocklike substances, to colorize the print with several different inks.

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Monochrom image of St Isaac's Square and the Saint Petersburg skyline, 1890s.

Original image
Photochrom print (color photo lithograph)
Created
between 1890 and 1905
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photochrom Prints Collection, reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsc-03883.
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Camera location

59°56′2.6″N, 30°18′22.9″E

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Source: http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/03800/03883u.tif

TITLE: [Place of the Imperial Council, West Side, St. Petersburg, Russia]

CALL NUMBER: LOT 13419, no. 098 [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-03883 (digital file from original) No known restrictions on reproduction.

MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].

NOTES: Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.

Print no. "8810".

Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, in the Photochrom print collection.

FORMAT: Photochrom prints Color 1890-1900.

PART OF: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsc 03883 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.03883

CARD #: 2001697491

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current16:53, 5 December 20061,917×1,401 (4.56 MB)Ghirlandajo
16:32, 5 December 20062,088×1,572 (5.54 MB)Ghirlandajo (Monochrom image of St Isaac's Square and the Saint Petersburg skyline, 1890s. {{PD-LOC}} Source: http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/03800/03883u.tif TITLE: [Place of the Imperial Council, West Side, St. Petersburg, Russia] CALL NUMBER: LOT 13419, n)