Russia, Saint Petersburg. The Alexander Column or Alexandrian Column in the Palace Square. It was designed by the architect Auguste de Montferrand and built between 1830 and 1834, to commemorate the Russian military victory in the war with Napoleon's France. Engraving by Lemaitre. History of Russia by Jean Marie Chopin (1796-1870). Panorama Universal, Spanish edition, 1839.

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