What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

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Fires have been a terrible enemy of Moscow since ancient times. The record of the first Moscow fire is dated in the chronicle in 1177, when the Ryazan Prince Gleb burned Moscow. Later, fires in the Mother See were mentioned more than once. One of the largest was the fire on July 19, 1701, when the cells of the Novospassky Monastery caught fire, and the fire spread throughout the Kremlin.

Almost the whole of Moscow burned down in 1812, when a fire destroyed almost all wooden buildings in the mass. What Moscow was like before the "Napoleonic" fire can be seen today only in engravings of that time.

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of Moscow from the balcony of the Kremlin Palace towards the Moskvoretsky Bridge. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyseven

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of Zamoskvorechye from the Kremlin. Fragment. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyseven

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of Moscow from the balcony of the Imperial Palace, taken on the right side. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyseven

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of Moscow from the balcony of the Kremlin Palace towards the Moskvoretsky Bridge. Fragment. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyseven

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of Moscow from the balcony of the Imperial Palace, taken on the right side. Fragment. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyseven

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View towards the Stone Bridge. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyseven The staff is different.

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of Moscow from the balcony of the Kremlin Palace towards the Moskvoretsky Bridge. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyseven

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of Red Square. Engraving by F. Lorie (or Guttenberg, and later by D. Lafond) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyfive

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of the Ice Mountains in Moscow during cheese week (View of the ice mountains on Neglinnaya during Maslenitsa). Engraving by F. Lorie (or G. H. Oberkogler) according to the drawing of J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyfour

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of Mokhovaya and Pashkov's house in Moscow. Engraving by F. Lorie based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyeight

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of the Stone Bridge and its surroundings in Moscow from the wooden bridge that is at the corner (Vodovzvodnaya) tower. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetysix Wooden bridge — a bridge over the river . Neglinka.

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of the Kremlin building and its surroundings (View of the Kremlin from Moskvoretskaya embankment). Engraving by F. Lorie and D. Lafond based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyfive

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of the Yauz Bridge. Engraving by F. Lorie based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyeight In the upper part, to the left of the center — a house with a rotunda on the roof — the Stroganov — Surovshchikov — Tutolmin Palace on Goncharnaya Street. The rotunda was similar to the one on Pashkov house.

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of the Yauza Bridge. Engraving by F. Lorie based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. Fragment. 1798 And the staff is different.

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of the Silver baths and their surroundings in Moscow. Engraving by F. Lorie (or M. G. Eichler) based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetynine Paper (hand-cast with watermarks of 1813), chisel, etching, watercolor coloring. An imprint of the 1810s.

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

Silver baths in Moscow. J. Delabart. 1790s.

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of the Podnovinsky suburb (Podnovinsky festivities). An engraving by Guttenberg and F. Lorie based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. onethousandsevenhundredninetyfive

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View from the balcony of the Ostankino Palace. Engraving by D. S. Lafon based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. 1790s.

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View of the Spassky Gate and its surroundings from Ivanovskaya Square in the Kremlin to the Bishop's House, the Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Nicholas Gostunsky. Gerard Delabart (Gerard de la Barthe). onethousandsevenhundredninetyfive

What Moscow looked like at the end of the XVIII century before the great fire of 1812

View from the balcony of the Ostankino Palace. Fragment. Engraving by D. S. Lafon based on a drawing by J. Delabarta. 1790s. The staff is different.

Keywords: 18th century | City | Engravings | Moscow | Fire

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