Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Russia. With colonnade, dome and statues of the archangels Gabriel and Michael. Built for Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov by Russian architect Andrey Voronikhin in the reign of Alexander I. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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