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Ораниенбаум / Oranienbaum 1892

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2015 · Travel & Events

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Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Ораниенбаум 
Фотографии Ю.Шокальский
1892 г.

Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs
Oranienbaum
Photographs by Yuli Mikhailovich Shokalsky 
1892

Here I present a album of photographs by Yuli Mikhailovich Shokalski (1856-1940), of the Russian Grand Palace and park of Oranienbaum taken in 1892.
 The palace is located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland in the present-day town of Lomonosov, some 40 km west of St. Petersburg.
Peter the Great gave the grounds to his closest advisor and friend Alexander Danilovich Menshikov in 1707. The opulent palace was built in stages and was led by the architect D.M. Fontana, later replaced by I.H. Schedel . Interestingly, Oranienbaum was the only palace around St. Petersburg not to have been captured by Nazi forces during the Great Patriotic War. 

Yuli Mikhailovich Shokalsky  was a Russian geographer, oceanographer and cartographer. A grandson of Anna Kern, Pushkin's celebrated mistress, Shokalski graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880 and made a career in the Imperial Russian Navy, helping establish the Sevastopol Marine Observatory and rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1912.  At the Naval School he taught mathematics, navigation and physical geography.At the same time, he developed interest in limnology and meteorology and became the most prolific Russian author on the subjects. In the Marine Miscellanies alone, he published some 300 articles.
He also taught at the Naval Academy in Leningrad University. During this time he was elected as full member of the Russian Geological Society. 
He became Chairman of the Russian Geographical Society from 1917 to 1931.

Music: Etude  No 6 in G major by by Anton Rubinstein

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