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Gottorp Globe
Gottorp Globe
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Science. Education/Museums
GOTTORP GLOBE, a unique planetarium globe - a hollow rotating sphere over 3.1 metres in diameter with the Earth surface pictured on the outside and a celestial map on the inside of the sphere. The internal space is large enough to accommodate a table and a bench for ten or twelve people. The globe was constructed in Gottorp, Germany, in 1652-64. Presented as a gift to Peter the Great by Duke of Holstein Karl Friedrich, it was transported to St. Petersburg and installed in Kunstkammer's tower in 1717. Although it suffered a lot from the fire of 1747, the globe was restored. A two-storied house was built specially for the globe on the square opposite the building of Twelve Colleges in 1751-53. The globe was moved to the Museum Building of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1828. Handed over to the Imperial Court Ministry in 1901, it was installed in the Admiralty of Tsarskoe Selo. The globe was seized by German troops and taken to Germany in 1941. Returned to Leningrad in 1947, it was handed over to the Academy of Sciences again and installed in the restored tower of Kunstkammer. The globe was completely restored in 1958. Reference: Карпеев Э. П. Большой Готторпский глобус. СПб., 2000. O. N. Ansberg.
Persons
Karl Friedrich, Duke
Peter I, Emperor
Bibliographies
Карпеев Э. П. Большой Готторпский глобус. СПб., 2000
The subject Index
Kunstkammer
Twelve Collegiums Building
Russian Academy of Sciences
Ministry of the Imperial Court
Chronograph
1747
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Field of Mars (Marsovo Pole), ensemble
FIELD OF MARS (in the 18th century Bolshoy Meadow, Poteshnoe Field, Tsaritsyn Meadow, in 1918 -40 – Zhertv Revolyutsii Square), the square in the centre of St. Petersburg. It was named so in honour of Mars, the Roman god of war
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Kunstkammer
KUNSTKAMMER (from German "Kunstkammer" - "chambers of curiosities, museum") (3 Universitetskaya Embankment). The oldest museum in Russia, was founded in 1714 based on the private collections of Peter the Great
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M. V. Lomonosov Museum
M. V. LOMONOSOV MUSEUM (3 University Embankment) opened in 1949 within the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (becoming a branch of the museum in 1994) in the Kunstkammer building, where in 1741-65 M. V
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Spit of Vasilievsky Island
SPIT OF VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, a cape in the eastern part of Vasilievsky Island, washed by the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva rivers, the highest part of the island and one of the main architectural ensembles of St. Petersburg. Built to architect D
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The Admiralty
A group of brick buildings under common name the Admiralty was built by architect V.I. Neelov on the bank of the Big Pond in 1773 – 1783.
All buildings were constructed in commemoration of integration of Russia and the Tauric Khanate
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The Admiralty (“Holland”)
The architectural ensemble of the Admiralty or “Holland” consisted of three pavilions and Sailor’s house was included in the Great Pond view of the Catherine park
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Source: Tsarskoe Selo
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