Pictorial map panorama of Leningrad by Intourist. St. Petersburg, Russia c1933
Pictorial map panorama of Leningrad. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Intourist. Provenance: Intourist. Type: Folding pictorial tourist map. A fascinating pictorial map of St. petersburg, Ruissia, known as leningrad between 1924 and 1991. record of eighty-three of the city's most important edifices of the time, including the then-recent flourish of Constructivist building development (indicated as fifteen buildings of "New Architecture"), a Soviet modern architecture movement which flourished between the late 1920s and approximately 1935. The print run for this map was presumably rather small. Intourist was founded in 1929 as the primary travel agency for foreign visitors to the Soviet Union. Soviet tourism, such as it was, peaked in the early 1930s, however by the late Stalin era, the number of foreigners visiting the Soviet Union dropped to nearly zero. According to a 1948 report by Intourist, foreign tourism in the Soviet Union was “nonexistent”. In the same year, VOKS, the body in charge of hosting writers, artists and intellectuals, received only 89 guests.
Size: 8837px × 5272px
Location: Russia
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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